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In identifying the type of journey claim that will be accepted under NSW's new restricted journey provisions, the WCC has found a worker who was injured while travelling home in the dark is entitled to workers' compensation.

Employers have more control over injury and claims management and can decrease workers' comp costs if they self-insure, but they must ensure their OHS standards are "better than compliance", according to Aon Hewitt's people risk consulting services director.

Some workers could be bound by the conditions of a stop-bullying order for decades, in theory, with the Fair Work Commission not being required to apply timeframes or expiry dates to orders.

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Managers set the tone for respectful and harassment-free workplaces and should be careful when taking part in a swearing culture, the Queensland IRC has stressed in awarding an injured worker compensation.

The anti-bullying application that led to a finding that the Fair Work Commission could consider pre-2014 incidents in such cases has been dismissed because the applicant's employer isn't a constitutionally-covered business.

An employer has been found guilty of breaching Queensland's mirror WHS Act in a case, according to a leading safety lawyer, that demonstrates how important it is for companies to challenge questionable prohibition or improvement notices.

An employer's decision to dispute a workers' comp claim was inappropriate and "obviously motivated" by its insurer's reluctance to indemnify those it insured, the Tasmanian WRCT has found.

The Fair Work Commission has ordered a workplace bully to refrain from commenting on his victim's clothes or appearance, as well as imposing a condition on the victim, in its first substantive anti-bullying order.

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