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An employer has been ordered to pay an injured worker more than $560,000 in damages, after the Victorian County Court found it failed to alter its system of work for a manual handling task.
A worker who suffered a psychiatric injury when she was turned down for a promotion has been awarded workers' compensation, after the AAT found her manager - who held her in "very low regard" - should have been excluded from the recruitment process.
Two companies that owed a worker at a work Christmas party a duty of care aren't liable for injuries he sustained when he was assaulted, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled.
An employer that was the last of a series of companies to employ a worker before she developed lung cancer, which was possibly caused by passive smoking at work, has won a temporary reprieve against a lump sum compensation order.
A worker's claim that he was injured while trying to fulfil his OHS duties when he confronted a man, who abused a woman at a service station, has been rejected.
An employer that relied on its OHS manager's "unqualified medical opinion" of an injured worker's capacity has been ordered by a judge to find him suitable employment within the organisation.
An employer that failed to instruct a worker not to stand on scaffolding rails, even if it was "obvious" to workers not to do so, has been ordered to pay him $725,000 in damages, after he fractured his spine in a five-metre fall.
Investigation reports on a worker's injury aren't protected by legal professional privilege, the Victorian County Court has ruled in favour of an employer in an ongoing indemnity dispute.
The full Federal Court has rejected a contractor's appeal against a s-xual harassment ruling, upholding earlier findings that a hotel and street were "workplaces".
