Browsing: Workers' compensation court and tribunal decisions | Page 176

In an important decision, Fair Work Australia has questioned whether it was "really the intention" of a RailCorp enterprise agreement to compensate a worker for a 13-hour medical examination - which he slept through.

A worker who initiated dozens of court actions relating to injuries and other issues against his former employer, Mitsubishi Motors, has failed in his appeal against Federal Court orders declaring him a vexatious litigant.

In an important case, the Victorian Court of Appeal has quashed a $900,000 damages ruling, after it found an injured electrician who spent 60 per cent of his work week with the same employer was an independent contractor, and not an employee.

Fair Work Australia has upheld a mining company's bid to continue testing workers' urine for drugs and alcohol, after it found the reliability of saliva testing was questionable.

A Queensland employer that failed to respond to an employee's "reasonable suspicions" that his co-workers were under the influence of alcohol has been ordered to compensate him for a psychological injury.

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A Western Australian employer's attempt to make a new finance manager "fit in" through mentoring was so mishandled it plunged him into a state of severe depression, a tribunal has found in awarding him compensation.

Employer without strict alcohol policy loses dismissal case; and Quad bike training package to tackle high death toll.

Industrial deafness claimants must be able to prove their workplaces are "noisy" environments, a NSW arbitrator has found in rejecting a truck driver's claim.

A judge has stressed that employers are obliged to communicate company policies to staff in "clear and unambiguous terms", in awarding workers' compensation to a Jetstar flight attendant who was issued a final warning for drinking alcohol on a plane.