A "cursory inspection" of a workplace garden bed, where workers regularly scaled a fence to access the site, would have revealed the inadequately covered pit that a worker fell into, an appeals court has found in upholding the man's $570,000 damages award.
An employer has been convicted and fined for breaching OHS laws in allowing one of its directors to repeatedly bully a worker for nearly three years. Meanwhile, a company has been convicted and fined after its CEO and others pretended they'd never seen, let alone employed, a workers' comp claimant.
A worker with epilepsy has been awarded damages for stress and humiliation under privacy laws, after a note containing her personal medical details was found in the staff toilet.
An appeals court has ordered a full re-trial of a long-running compensation dispute involving alleged OHS breaches and a High Court judgment in favour of an injured worker.
A 2015 High Court decision in favour of a worker with mesothelioma has contributed to defeating a bid from the family of a melanoma victim for higher weekly compensation payments.
Employers are entitled to gather new medical evidence to clarify how an injured worker's condition has changed with time, an appeals court has ruled in a cancer case spanning a decade.
A worker has been granted permission to sue her employer for her bullying-related psychological disorder, despite numerous stressful events in her personal life contributing to her condition. Meanwhile, an employer has failed to convince a commission that previous investigations showed a worker's anti-bullying application was vexatious.
A worker whose pregnancy went undiagnosed after six workplace medical examinations has been given the green light to sue the Commonwealth for damages, with an appeals court ruling that her claim isn't blocked by workers' comp laws.
