A Telstra employee who believed his workload was excessive has been awarded workers' compensation for a stress-related injury, with the AAT finding it was irrelevant that others coped with equal or greater demands.
The AAT has rejected an injured worker's bid to be compensated for the costs of insuring his Segway mobility device, but warns that people in his position are at risk of being sued if they're involved in an incident.
The Federal Court has ordered a tribunal to reconsider whether an injured worker's employment contributed to his substance abuse "to a material degree".
The Fair Work Commission has upheld a company's sacking of a supervisor who risked a "catastrophic explosion" when he interrupted the operation of plant to conduct training and left it running unsafely for several hours.
The Federal Circuit Court has rejected a worker's claim that she was sacked for asking not to work with a colleague who made her feel unsafe, ruling she was dismissed for assaulting the co-worker on the job a year earlier.
The Federal Court has found that an injured worker's entitlement to recover the costs of travelling for medical treatment must be assessed on a trip-by-trip basis, but acknowledged that this could disadvantage those who need to make multiple journeys.
A tribunal has rejected a worker's claim that her chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was caused by a virus she contracted after drinking from a water jug contaminated with faeces at a course.
A worker's claim that she was entitled to recover the costs of her $20,000 breast reduction surgery, because it treated her work-related neck and shoulder pain, has been rejected.
The Federal Court has quashed an earlier ruling that a worker's psychological injury is compensable because her employer's recruitment process was potentially biased.
