The High Court has revoked its own decision to grant a worker special leave to appeal against a ruling that her employer didn't have a duty to protect her psychological health from "insensitive" investigation letters blaming her for an altercation.
A commission has rejected a dismissed worker's claim she had a duty to tell a manager that an "abusive" internal job candidate had bullied her, because her employer failed to protect her from the candidate.
An employer that required staff to lift 10kg stock above shoulder height has been convicted and fined for its sluggish response to improvement notices. Meanwhile, safety regulators have issued fatality and communication alerts, while another regulator has launched a survey to inform its guidance on new chain-of-responsibility laws.
An employer unfairly sacked a worker for breaching a "zero tolerance" mobile phone policy that he was only vaguely aware of, the Fair Work Commission has found. The FWC has also rejected an anti-bullying applicant's bid for his name to be suppressed.
A company director is likely to be fined about $20,000 for her "appalling" WHS right-of-entry breaches, with a full Federal Court quashing a finding that the case against her failed because union officials neglected to write their middle names on the relevant entry notice.
A CEO was entitled to form the view that an operations manager threatened to report his company to SafeWork NSW and WorkSafe Victoria with the aim of securing a separation agreement with an $85,000 payment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A worker who reported her boss for drink driving a work vehicle has won her unfair dismissal claim and been awarded 11 weeks' pay in the Fair Work Commission.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has quashed a ruling that a worker was unfairly dismissed for breaching his employer's "life-saving" isolation procedures by stepping into the footprint of a "live" machine.
A major employer has been ordered to reinstate and compensate a fitter sacked for lock-out tag-out (LOTO) breaches, after a commission identified a "sharp dichotomy" between managers' understanding of the LOTO procedures and how they were actually carried out.
