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An employer's decades-old agreement for employees to attend union meetings during work hours did not equate to encouraging attendance and making it liable for injuries sustained there, a judge has confirmed on appeal.

In a decision examining when employees working from home can be considered to be in the course of their employment, a commission president has quashed an arbitrator's finding that a worker wasn't working when she was killed by her partner.

A worker whose internet search led to her claiming she developed chronic fatigue syndrome from employer-provided vaccinations has been denied workers' compensation.

It takes more than just the people within an organisation to facilitate a positive culture and worker wellbeing. Building managers and others who own and run workplaces need to "set the tone", a leading psychologist says.

A tribunal has rejected a Commonwealth employee's claim that the sudden onset of symptoms in her hand and fingers at work showed her carpel tunnel syndrome arose from scanning documents and keyboard work.

The safety benefits of sit-stand desks for sedentary workers with chronic low back pain (LBP) can be enhanced through behavioural counselling and pain self-management, US researchers have found.

Encouraging workers to take advantage of flexible work arrangements and regularly reviewing workloads have helped a new company control worker stress and improve productivity, its director says.

High-profile UK guidelines on the amount of time that desk-based workers should spend sitting, standing and moving at work were co-authored by a man who sold sit-stand desks, and appear to make unrealistic recommendations for reducing sitting time, Australian researchers have found.

A worker whose five-year battle for compensation for wrist injuries included two applications to the High Court, has been declared a vexatious litigant and will be banned from instituting further proceedings against her former employer without permission.

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.