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The employer of a worker who suffered a "severe overload" injury has unsuccessfully attempted to block his entitlements by making the novel claim that its inability to provide enough staff constituted reasonable administrative action.

A worker who suffered extensive injuries while travelling as a passenger in his employer's vehicle is entitled to compensation, a tribunal has ruled, rejecting the employer's claim he was using the car for his own benefit and was not employed at the time.

A manager's evidence on the support a worker received has helped establish a reasonably arguable case against the worker's claim that alleged bullying and work stress caused her psychological condition.

A superior court has rejected an employer's method for calculating incapacity payments and quashed a ruling that an injured worker was not entitled to interim payments because he was better off under Centrelink benefits.

A superior court has dismissed an employer's appeal against a finding that it acted unlawfully when it decided to cease an injured worker's weekly payments based on the opinion of a consultant occupational physician, who didn't keep records of her assessment or closely consider the relevant work incident.

One of Australia's big four banks has been censured for concluding, without going through the proper channels, that an employee's workers' comp claim linked to alleged "unachievable work pressures" is invalid.

An employer has unsuccessfully argued it wasn't liable for a worker's PTSD from dealing with violent criminals and being bullied by managers, with a tribunal rejecting that he wilfully misrepresented as never having suffered from the condition.

A tribunal has rejected an employer's "invitation" to ignore a doctor's statement that a worker hasn't recovered from a work injury, and the employer's claim that it isn't liable for the man's psychological issues that followed his workplace vehicle accident.

An employer has been granted permission to contest a bullying claim, in a case that hinged on the exact date a manager "received" an email containing the claim forms.

An employer unlawfully "took matters into its own hands" and deducted alleged overpayments from an employee's workers' compensation entitlements, after discovering he was operating a side business, a tribunal has found.