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When it comes to managing social media use, the boundaries between personal and work life are blurred, and employers risk regulatory scrutiny and litigation if they ignore issues that arise between workers online, according to a senior workplace lawyer.
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.
A company has been ordered to pay an injured worker $120,000 in damages, after a court found its order and delivery systems led to the man manually manoeuvring heavy objects.
A company director has been handed a record-high fine for work health and safety breaches that occurred through his "consent or connivance", and permanently injured a teenage worker.
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.
