Browsing: Workers' compensation court and tribunal decisions | Page 10

A long-serving worker who experienced five years of bullying from a co-worker in the form of verbal threats and aggression has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, after the bully was promoted to be his supervisor.

Two companies have been ordered to pay a total of more than $1.2 million in damages to a worker who slipped and fell 10 metres from an access ladder that didn't comply with Australian Standards.

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A worker who told a meeting he would "slit" the throat of a colleague if he was forced to work with him again, has been denied compensation for a psychological injury, after a tribunal found his condition was aggravated by reasonable administrative action taken in respect of the threat.

The High Court has quashed a ruling that a company is vicariously liable for the injury-causing act of an intoxicated employee urinating on a sleeping colleague in an accomodation facility.

A police officer psychologically injured from working on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been awarded more than $1.8 million in damages, in a case examining the obligations of employers to oversee their employee assistance programs.

A worker has unsuccessfully challenged the outcomes of his return-to-work grievances, with a commission finding there was no evidence he was provided an unsafe workplace or his employer should have launched an investigation into his bullying and harassment complaints.

A worker who sustained a psychological injury, after her employer started monitoring her work schedule, has won her bid for compensation, with a commission finding the actions of her team leader didn't constitute a "performance appraisal" invoking the reasonable-action defence.

One of Australia's big four banks has been censured for concluding, without going through the proper channels, that an employee's workers' comp claim linked to alleged "unachievable work pressures" is invalid.

In a long-running case that has gone to an appeals court twice, and examines the intentions of legislative amendments, an employer has failed to prove an injured worker was not connected with a jurisdiction with relatively generous common law rights.