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An employer that sent a worker "heavy-handed" emails after she took a rare day off work has been ordered to compensate her for a psychological injury.

The Federal Court has quashed an earlier ruling that a worker's psychological injury is compensable because her employer's recruitment process was potentially biased.

A Federal Court full bench has upheld an employer's appeal against an adverse action claim, after it found a dismissed worker's misconduct wasn't linked to his depression.

A parliamentary committee has applauded the NSW Government's "positive response" to its inquiry into WorkCover's notorious bullying culture, but raised concerns over the lack of progress on proposed anti-bullying legislation.

An employer that denied a truck driver procedural fairness when it sacked him for repeatedly speeding was a large enough company to have developed proper policies for dismissing employees, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A worker who believes his poor health arose from his employer's "malevolently motivated micromanagement" of him has been denied a stop-bullying order.

In contrast to two recent cases involving workers who were sacked for swearing, the Fair Work Commission has ruled that a worker who verbally abused a colleague following a forklift near-miss was unfairly dismissed.

• Fatigued worker's unfair dismissal claim rejected;
  
• Unsafe ladder involved in incident months after ACCC recall;
  
• Alerts issued after deaths and other incidents; and
  
• Vic safety and Qld RTW award winners announced.

Employers can take three simple steps to recognise and manage workplace conflict, the Comcare Conference in Melbourne has heard.

A worker who suffered a psychiatric injury when she was turned down for a promotion has been awarded workers' compensation, after the AAT found her manager - who held her in "very low regard" - should have been excluded from the recruitment process.