Being denied the opportunity to mentally and physically unwind after a stressful task can cause workers psychological distress, but brief at-work recovery activities mitigate the problem, according to a new study.
A manager's micromanagement of his staff amounted to bullying and constituted a valid reason for his dismissal, even though he was unaware of the damage he was causing, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A sacked worker has been granted permission to pursue her 64-day-late unfair dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission hearing that her manager's actions after the dismissal caused her to have a mental breakdown.
An employer has been found vicariously liable for a manager bullying and overworking an employee, and ordered to pay the employee $436,000 in damages for a psychiatric injury.
In a rare case, an employer has been fined for breaching OHS laws in relentlessly bullying a teenage apprentice, who now suffers from anxiety and depression.
The NSW Government has provided no evidence that any of the thousands of injured workers who exited the workers' comp scheme and "returned to work" after the 2012 overhaul are now in "long-term, sustainable" employment, a major report has found.
Many safety professionals are "obsessed with disasters" and fail to learn from what "went right" in near misses, according to leading safety lawyer Michael Tooma. He also warns that few employers are taking adequate steps to prevent psychological harm.
An employer was entitled to introduce KPIs to monitor a worker's performance just weeks after he returned to work from three months' sick leave, a tribunal has found in rejecting the man's stress claim.
A worker whose psychiatric injury - sustained after a colleague was killed in a 1995 fire - resurged after a cycling incident 16 years later, has been granted leave to sue his former employer for damages.
