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A NSW worker has been awarded $1.3 million in damages for injuries sustained in a forklift incident, after the District Court found his employer and the forklift operator failed to ensure the vehicle was driven safely in a "tight working environment".
Workers' comp case studies provided by WorkCover NSW to the Government and the media in early 2012 - for the alleged purpose of "maligning" injured workers to justify overhauling the scheme - contained enough personal information to identify at least one of the individuals referred to, a tribunal has ruled in a privacy dispute.
Employers that want to engage workers as independent contractors must make this very clear in written agreements, the Tasmanian WCT has ruled in a workers' comp dispute.
A Victorian worker who was subjected to passive smoking at work in the 1980s, and diagnosed with emphysema in 2010, has been given the green light by the Court of Appeal to sue her former employer.
A Westpac employee who was bullied and called "Scabby Abby" by colleagues has been awarded workers' compensation, after the Queensland IRC found one manager lied about the worker's performance, and another failed to act on her harassment complaints.
A former labourer, who suffers from mesothelioma and has just months to live, isn't entitled to the $1.3 million in past and future domestic services that he was awarded in February, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled.
Employers that want to modify plant should consult the manufacturer on the potential safety risks of doing so, and then put in place systems to obviate those risks, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled in an injury damages case.
A return-to-work plan must be proposed to an injured worker and his or her doctor before it is formally introduced, the South Australian WCT has ruled, in finding an employer implemented a worker's plan with "undue haste", aggravating his psych injury.
The decision to formalise a casual performance management process didn't fall within the definition of workplace bullying - even if it humiliated a worker, the Federal Court has found in quashing an AAT decision.
A worker who was seriously injured while surfing before work has been denied workers' compensation, after the NSW WCC found he wasn't "encouraged or induced" by his employer to use its paddle boards.
