Browsing: Psychological injuries | Page 82

"Fixing" the individual worker is only half the battle of dealing with work-related stress injuries, a senior scientific officer and expert in human factors and ergonomics has told a Western Australian conference today.

Woolworths Ltd has an arguable case against a recent finding that a worker's ignorance of the stop-bullying jurisdiction justified her very late unfair dismissal claim, a commission has found. Meanwhile, a court has found an employer took adverse action against a pregnant worker by making her redundant two days before she went on maternity leave.

A Commonwealth Bank of Australia employee has been denied workers' compensation for a psychological injury, which he claimed was caused by being reprimanded for "unethical selling" that his managers condoned and encouraged.

A worker who was sacked while he was on sick leave for failing to attend a meeting he wasn't aware of has been awarded $25,000, after a commission found his employer deliberately avoided communicating with his representative.

A worker who suffered a psychiatric injury from his employer's attempts to redeploy him has been awarded workers' compensation, after a tribunal found the employer's redeployment policy wasn't specifically directed at the worker.

An employer has been ordered to pay more than $1.7 million in damages to a manager who was forced into medical retirement after a new CEO repeatedly "harassed, mistreated, devalued and undermined" her for 11 months.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can improve symptoms in workers suffering from common mental disorders (CMDs) quicker than return-to-work-style interventions, Swedish researchers have found.

A tribunal has "undercut" a regulator's decision to accept liability for a worker's major depressive order arising from the aggravation of her pain syndrome.

A worker has been granted permission to pursue her unfair dismissal claim 164 days late because of three factors, including her poor mental health and anti-bullying application.

Adversarial workers' comp schemes must be overhauled to ensure emergency services workers with PTSD don't have to battle insurers and non-independent doctors when they're at their most unwell, a paramedics union says.