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A worker who suffered psychological injuries after being sacked because his weight posed a safety risk - to himself and other employees - was injured by reasonable management action, the Queensland IRC has ruled.

• Discriminatory text messages lead to $10k damages bill;
  
• WorkSafe Victoria appoints CEO and launches claims app; and
  
• ACT Bill amends workers' comp Act and other legislation.

Workers who are underweight are likely to be less productive than healthy, overweight, or even severely obese workers, a major UK study has found.

An employer has been ordered to reinstate a worker who was sacked for defying his fatigue-management training by falling asleep on the job.

• Prevention of adverse action claims better than cure; and
  
• Capacity certificates to speed up RTW in SA.

A company that restructured one of its worker's roles after she suffered an anxiety disorder has been found to have taken unlawful adverse action against her because of her mental condition.

An employer acted reasonably in transferring a sick worker to a role that could better "absorb" her frequent absenteeism, a tribunal has found.

An injured worker's claim that he was entitled to return home immediately after clocking on because he was "on call" has been rejected in an unfair dismissal dispute.

An employer directly discriminated against a pregnant employee by sending her irate text messages while she was in the work toilet with morning sickness, a tribunal has found.

• Worker wasn't sacked for complaining to safety regulator; and
  
• Blood-test Bill protects all emergency workers in SA.