Browsing: Workers' comp decisions (National)


WED
12:02PM

Travel allowance queries not unreasonable under injury Act

A worker has failed in his bid for compensation for stress and anxiety injuries, with a tribunal finding his employer's repeated enquiries about his travel expenses were "reasonable administrative actions", regardless of whether they upset the worker.



FRI
2:45PM

Discrimination protections needed for injured veterans: AAT

A tribunal has asked the Department of Veterans' Affairs to produce guidelines to prevent injured veterans being discriminated against based on their mental health treatment records, in upholding an ex-soldier's post-traumatic stress disorder claim.



THU
1:37PM

"Objectionable" materials trigger PTSD

A customs officer's exposure to books, films and video games depicting s-x, drug misuse, crime and other "abhorrent and revolting phenomena" was the cause of his post-traumatic stress disorder, and his compensation was halted prematurely, a tribunal has found.


WED
1:23PM

Undertaking rehab is not "work" under WHS Act: court

A Federal judge has concluded that undertaking a rehabilitation program is not "work" as prescribed by WHS laws - a finding that precludes a worker from making an adverse action claim over her dismissal.



THU
3:54PM

Journalist's mosquito-injury claim rejected

An ABC journalist who claimed she contracted Ross River virus while covering the northern NSW floods in early 2020, has been denied workers' compensation, with a tribunal finding it was more likely she was infected on a later holiday.


THU
1:46PM

Injured worker "varied" evidence to suit his case

A national employer's decision to deny compensation to a worker, who claimed his shoulder was injured by an awkward manual task, has been affirmed by a tribunal, which found he provided an "incorrect history" to doctors and changed his story to suit his post-termination case.


WED
12:22PM

Second injured interpreter less successful than colleague

In another case involving the interpretation service on Nauru, a tribunal has found a worker's psychological symptoms arose from the reasonable premature termination of his employment, blocking his access to workers' compensation.


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