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A Queensland employer that asked an unwitting worker about her s-x life during an internal inquiry has provided a valuable lesson on how not to manage a misconduct investigation.

An injured leading hand who was sacked after performing selected duties for more than a decade has failed in his bid for reinstatement, after the NSW IRC found it would be unreasonable to require his employer to "manufacture a job" to accommodate him.

NSW IRC President Justice Roger Boland has slammed WorkCover for its "secrecy", in rejecting its application to adjourn nine OHS prosecutions currently before the Industrial Court.

A bad back does not have to be "produced by external causes" to be considered work-related, the Northern Territory Supreme Court has found in confirming that a fly-in-fly-out worker who was injured while sleeping was entitled to compensation.

A Queensland concreting employer has successfully argued that it sacked a team leader - who earned $1.50 an hour more than other employees - for "sound financial reasons", and not because of his back injury.

A labour-hire company should have insisted on a remote site being inspected for safety hazards before sending workers there, the Western Australian Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled in ordering the company to pay 20 per cent of a $1 million damages bill.

A workplace armed-robbery victim with post-traumatic stress disorder has told Fair Work Australia she felt harassed and victimised by her employer, who complained of having to "babysit" her.

An unfair dismissal case, involving a worker sacked for theft, has uncovered deficiencies in a South Australian employer's forklift-licence regime that left it unable to prove an OHS breach was serious misconduct.

A former Telstra technician who had nightmares after helping two strangers escape from a man wielding a knife, and who was later targeted by an "unreasonable" team leader, has been awarded compensation.

Fair Work Australia has upheld the summary dismissal of a Bunnings employee who allegedly threatened to shoot a customer services manager and was arrested by police at work.