A host employer has been ordered to pay a worker nearly $270,000 in damages for manual handling injuries he sustained after it switched his task to lifting 55kg objects, without training or supervision.
In sentencing a PCBU for multiple breaches of WHS regulations, a judge has suggested that prosecutors detail the costs saved by companies by ignoring their duties, so that courts can set fines that adequately deter such offending.
A worker has failed in his bid for Fair Work Commission orders to return him to his previous department, from which he was transferred after making a bullying complaint.
One of three entities charged after the death of a teenager in the Work for the Dole (WFD) program has been handed less than 20 per cent of the maximum penalty for a category 3 WHS breach.
An employer has unsuccessfully challenged an order to reinstate a worker who was sacked after a team leader allowed him to enter a confined space without complying with all the safety requirements.
In a decision highlighting the risks of ignoring workplace complaints, a worker has been awarded damages after her manager discouraged her from formally complaining about another worker's menacing and s-xual comments.
A supervisor's actions in inviting a mystery support person - a rehabilitation provider - to a meeting with a worker contributed to the worker's psychological injury, and didn't constitute administrative action, a tribunal has found.
A coronial inquest has found that a young worker was not abandoned by two co-workers, who were meant to watch out for his safety, before he was killed in a trench collapse, and identified an important safeguard implemented after the incident.
A recent High Court judgment in an anti-discrimination case does not bar the determination of an interstate worker's injury claim, a tribunal has ruled. However, it rejected the worker's bid for weekly benefits for PTSD arising from bullying and racial discrimination.
