A worker who sustained a psychological injury, as a result of her employer rejecting her application for assistance in undertaking a law degree, has failed in her bid for workers' compensation.
There are two key reasons that employees fail to use employee assistance programs - first they don't know about them, and second, they're concerned their health problems will become public, according to a leading provider in the field.
An employer that sacked a manager for bullying, based on hearsay from a Workplace Health and Safety Queensland inspector, has been ordered to pay him $50,000 in compensation.
A worker who claimed a manager singled him out and micromanaged him has been refused stop-bullying orders, in a case applying a 2015 test for unreasonable behaviour.
An injured worker has been denied workers' compensation for wilfully ticking the wrong box in a question on her psychological illness history on her claim forms.
A worker was unfairly dismissed for failing a random alcohol test because his employer failed to resolve earlier work issues, which, after a chance encounter, resulted in him feeling anxious and consuming too much alcohol, a commission has found.
An employer that decided against resolving a psychologically injured worker's many grievances was not negligent because it delayed the process out of concern for his wellbeing, an appeals court has found in denying the worker damages.
A worker who alleged she was robbed of a $15,000 employee-of-the-year prize, and sustained a psychological injury as a result, has failed in her bid for Fair Work Commission orders overturning the competition's outcome.
A tribunal has rejected claims that a psychologically injured worker wilfully concealed her pre-employment history of mental illness, while another tribunal has rejected an injured worker's bid for the costs of his car repairs.
