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A workplace team leader breached privacy rules by using an expired certificate of capacity, involving a psychological injury, to determine that a worker wasn't suitable for a higher role, a tribunal has declared.

A long-serving worker who experienced five years of bullying from a co-worker in the form of verbal threats and aggression has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, after the bully was promoted to be his supervisor.

Workers at a "big four" firm have experienced bullying normalised as performance management, and "insane pressure to churn work" - factors causing harm to many of them, an Elizabeth Broderick review of the firm has found.

A worker who told a meeting he would "slit" the throat of a colleague if he was forced to work with him again, has been denied compensation for a psychological injury, after a tribunal found his condition was aggravated by reasonable administrative action taken in respect of the threat.

The Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme has illustrated how "incredibly important" it is to foster healthy psychosocial environments at work, according to Comcare's CEO.

The High Court has quashed a ruling that a company is vicariously liable for the injury-causing act of an intoxicated employee urinating on a sleeping colleague in an accomodation facility.

A police officer psychologically injured from working on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been awarded more than $1.8 million in damages, in a case examining the obligations of employers to oversee their employee assistance programs.

PCBUs' incident notification duties could soon be amended to capture a much broader range of incidents and require periodic reporting of matters like workplace bullying and traumatic events.

"Workplace-directed" programs appear to be the most successful return-to-work (RTW) interventions for employees on sick leave with burnout, according to researchers, who stress that successful RTW hinges on early intervention.

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