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Another Queensland worker who injured herself while walking backwards during aggressive-behaviour-management training has been awarded damages.

A Tasmanian school teacher who injured her neck in a playground collision has had her workers' compensation reinstated, even though surveillance footage showed her performing tasks beyond her alleged capacity.

The Victorian WorkCover Authority is entitled to recover damages obtained by an injured worker in the Commonwealth jurisdiction, to prevent double dipping, the Supreme Court has ruled.

An ACT company director was reluctant to tell older workers how to use ramps to lift heavy objects because he thought he "would not have been well liked" if he did so, the Supreme Court has found in ordering the company to pay an injured worker $1.4 million in damages.

High Court rejects Australia Post's damages appeal; Comcare and FSC release annual reports; and RSRT follows up first order with plan to focus on supermarket chains.

A Queensland employer that was ordered to pay $369,000 in damages to a worker who injured herself walking backwards has successfully appealed the decision.

In a decision that was reserved pending the High Court's judgment of the motel-s-x case, the Federal Court has found that a worker injured at a roadhouse during an eight-hour round trip to see a doctor - who his employer encouraged him to visit - is entitled to workers' compensation.

A Tribunal has highlighted the importance of encouraging workers to speak up - without fear of reprisal - if they believe they're being s-xually harassed, in ordering a man to pay a former colleague with psychiatric injuries more than $100,000 in damages.

The lawyer who led Comcare's successful High Court appeal in the motel-s-x case has outlined the new four-step version of the Hatzimanolis test.

A major South Australian employer's revised safety and rehabilitation policies contain an "inappropriately confined view" of what constitutes suitable employment for injured workers, the WCT has found.