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A worker who claimed she was forced to quit her job because her employer wouldn't investigate her complaints of sexual harassment and bullying has had her unfair dismissal claim rejected.

A return-to-work plan must be proposed to an injured worker and his or her doctor before it is formally introduced, the South Australian WCT has ruled, in finding an employer implemented a worker's plan with "undue haste", aggravating his psych injury.

The decision to formalise a casual performance management process didn't fall within the definition of workplace bullying - even if it humiliated a worker, the Federal Court has found in quashing an AAT decision.

In a long-running dispute between a Victorian law firm and a former partner, the Court of Appeal has found the partner - who made 23 bullying and harassment complaints during her employment - isn't entitled to damages.

The horrific death of a technician more than 30 years ago wasn't the cause of a former government worker's psychiatric illnesses, the AAT has found, in dismissing the worker's compensation claim.

A Victorian human services worker, who left a resident with disability on the side of the road 76km away from his home, sustained a compensable psychological injury as a result of her employer's protracted investigation into the incident, a magistrate has found.

Assessing a worker's psychological injury claim involves much more than a diagnosis. Here, a research psychologist explains how an employee's credibility and functionality are measured.

Comcare has been granted special leave to appeal to the High Court against a decision to award workers' compensation to a Commonwealth employee who was injured while having s-x in her motel room on a work trip.

Workers who are subjected to bullying and stress at work are more likely to have children and grandchildren with autism or cancer, and their employers could be held liable under the due diligence provisions of the model WHS Act, a new Australian white paper says.

A security officer who claimed his psychological injury was caused by a co-worker's aggressive behaviour has had his workers' comp claim dismissed, after the Queensland IRC found his condition arose from his mistaken belief that managers failed to act on his concerns.