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A worker has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, after a tribunal found his employer suspended him based on the mistaken belief that he had been charged with necrophilia.
Employers need to be vigilant and thorough when managing short and long-term absences of ill and injured workers, according to a DLA Piper lawyer, who outlines best-practice steps to doing so.
The Fair Work Commission has found that an employer will be in breach of the Fair Work Act if it dismisses an injured worker - who is unable to perform the inherent requirements of his role - while he receives income support from a "sick leave pool".
An employer's decision to verbally counsel a worker, who unintentionally contributed to a colleague's injuries and destroyed a $1.2 million truck, was appropriate and reasonable, according to the Fair Work Commission.
An HR manager acted unreasonably in failing to gauge whether a worker was able to continue with a surprise two-hour meeting, during which the worker was bombarded with allegations of bullying and harassment, the ACT Supreme Court has found.
Encouraging employees to socialise out of hours is good leadership practice, but employers should reconsider whether such encouragement extends to "kicking on" into the night, a Fair Work Commissioner has said in an unfair dismissal dispute.
The Victorian Magistrates Court has rejected a manager's claim that his psychological injury arose from being overworked and bullied by managers, finding he sustained it after he was suspended for abusing colleagues.
A worker who claims her supervisor directed her to accompany him alone in his work vehicle, before taking her to a caravan park "to party", has been awarded workers' compensation for a psychiatric injury.
The Fair Work Commission has found that workers aren't required to report bullying to their employers before applying for stop-bullying orders, and that sacking a worker doesn't necessarily nullify his or her bullying application.
