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While changing a worker's driving routes during the COVID-19 pandemic might have constituted reasonable management action, it was not the sole cause of the driver's adjustment disorder, an appeals commission has ruled, in upholding an earlier finding that the driver is totally incapacitated.

A major employer's attempts to implement a government-imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate were "draconian" and unreasonably psychologically injured a worker, an appeals commission has confirmed.

A worker who alleged she wasn't provided with hearing protection in noisy areas in her 30 years with Qantas, has won her industrial deafness claim, with a commission rejecting the airline's intermittent-noise case.

A company has failed to overturn a $2 million-plus damages ruling examining the "transfer of employment". It unsuccessfully contended it was not vicariously liable for a labour-hire worker's negligence that caused a crush injury to a fellow employee.

Despite 18 years of varying high-level noise exposure, a worker's last employer has been found liable for his industrial deafness.

An appeals commission has dismissed a bid for death benefits by the family of a worker who died from a heart attack while making a delivery. It upheld a previous ruling that there was insufficient scientific evidence linking workplace pollution to the worker's death.

A commission has rejected a major education employer's claim that an "ancient" settlement removed its obligation to provide suitable duties to an injured worker.

A senior manager's aggressive manner and other missteps made a Sydney council's otherwise reasonable decision to investigate a matter unreasonable, contributing to a worker's psychological injury and entitling him to compensation, an appeals commission has confirmed.

A major employer has been deemed liable for the psychological injuries a worker developed after she was involved in product-quality-related incidents, which led to her being "interrogated" as if she was involved in a "murder case", a commission has found.

An appeals commission has upheld a physically and psychologically injured worker's claims, in a dispute over whether CCTV footage of an incident actually showed the woman sustaining an injury.