A school principal bullied an OHS representative by assigning a business manager, who the rep had a poor relationship with, to take part in her annual review, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A disciplinary meeting doesn't need to be undertaken perfectly to be considered reasonable administrative action, a tribunal has found in rejecting a worker's psychological injury claim.
Two managers treated a worker unfairly, and caused her psychiatric condition, because they were frustrated by her slow recovery from a finger injury, a tribunal has found.
A worker's psychiatric injury arose out of reasonable management action carried out in an unreasonable and "extreme" manner, a commission has found in upholding his compensation claim.
A worker has been denied workers' compensation after a court found her psychiatric injury was partly caused by a poor performance review, even after accepting that the other contributing factors included possible bullying.
An employer was entitled to introduce KPIs to monitor a worker's performance just weeks after he returned to work from three months' sick leave, a tribunal has found in rejecting the man's stress claim.
An employer that unfairly sacked a worker for bullying and unsafe work practices has defeated the man's reinstatement claim, after a commission found it repeatedly tried to train him to comply with its code of conduct before dismissing him.
A worker who left a 1.4-tonne load attached to a crane for two days deserved to be dismissed because he consciously parked the crane in an unsafe position and had recently undergone refresher training on the correct procedure, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Two train drivers who committed serious safety breaches deserved sanctions, but the uncertainty, embarrassment and stress they endured during their employer's protracted investigation should have been taken into account when determining their penalties, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An electorate officer for Federal Senator John Madigan has been denied workers' compensation for a psych injury, after the AAT found that at least one of the multiple work-related causes of his injury was reasonable administrative action.
