A large employer has been ordered to reinstate an injured worker who it sacked for allegedly failing to comply with a lawful instruction to attend an independent medical examination (IME) through his alleged "aggressive behaviour" at the appointment.
A teacher threatened with violence on multiple occasions has won an injury compensation dispute, with a commission stressing, in a scathing judgment, that her claims should never have been contested by authorities.
Many workers are subjected to threatened or actual physical violence on the job, and failing to provide them with long-term social support at work can negate the impact of immediate interventions, dramatically increasing their risk of depression and other disorders, European researchers have found.
The new paid family and domestic violence (FDV) leave entitlements, commencing today, will encourage employers to act on their responsibilities to victims, create safer working environments for many employees and save lives, according to unions and an expert in the field.
A worker with anger management issues breached his safety obligations when he threatened to cut a co-worker's throat, but a number of factors meant the employment relationship remained viable, a commission has found.
A ruling that a worker's knife-attack injuries weren't compensable, because of a possible drug-dealing connection, has been revoked for misapplying the "course of employment" test and considering "irrelevant matters".
A PCBU failed to take straightforward measures that would have protected a worker from being attacked by a client known to be violent, a tribunal has found in convicting the duty holder.
Employers will face increasing pressure to comply with their WHS notification duties around s-xual assault and harassment, under legislative and policy changes recommended by a major PricewaterhouseCoopers review, which found some companies engage in "opportunistic and deliberate breaches" of the obligations.
A major law firm has implemented special WHS procedures for its lawyers to respond to clients threatening suicide, self-harm and violence, and provides them with vicarious trauma training, to protect them from psychological injury.