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An employer that promptly addressed a safety superintendent's "serious and urgent" performance issues acted unreasonably, the Queensland IRC has ruled in a workers' comp dispute.
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.
NSW Labor will double WorkCover's inspectorate, return safety prosecutions to the Industrial Court and enact special anti-bullying laws if it defies the polls to win this Saturday's State election.
A manager who was sacked over a safety breach has been granted an extension of time to pursue his unfair dismissal claim, after the Fair Work Commission found his employer had given him the false impression that his dismissal might be reversed.
An employer was entitled to sack a worker for deliberately disobeying its zero-tolerance drug and alcohol policy, even though there was no evidence his drug-taking caused a safety incident, a full Federal Court has confirmed.
An employer has been ordered to pay a worker more than $3.8 million in damages for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), after one of his colleagues attempted to murder him by throwing him over a fourth-floor balcony.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld a company's sacking of a supervisor who risked a "catastrophic explosion" when he interrupted the operation of plant to conduct training and left it running unsafely for several hours.
