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A worker who fell to his death while performing an unfamiliar task while his director was away had been "left to his own devices" without a proper safety plan, the Victorian Coroner has found.
A manager who fell off a balcony while under the influence of cocaine and alcohol at a gathering at his home wasn't injured "in the course of his employment", a NSW tribunal has ruled, rejecting his claim that the gathering constituted a "seamless" continuation of a work function.
A Telstra employee who believed his workload was excessive has been awarded workers' compensation for a stress-related injury, with the AAT finding it was irrelevant that others coped with equal or greater demands.
The Federal Court has rejected an injured worker's claim that his employer took adverse action against him by exposing him to a manager's abusive "dressing down" and failing to offer him a return-to-work plan.
An employer's fatality-related OHS fine has been increased by $200,000 on appeal, after the Victorian County Court found it failed to take basic precautions to protect pedestrian workers from mobile plant.
Workplace drug testing programs that rely on both urine and saliva samples provide a far superior deterrent against illicit drug use than single-method regimes, according to a Fair Work Commissioner.
