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.
A major employer has failed in its bid to reduce a worker's benefits on the basis that the higher duties he was performing when he suffered a psychological injury, at the hands of his supervisor, were given to another employee.
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.
An office worker seeking compensation for tennis elbow from computer work has lost his case, with a tribunal reiterating that experiencing pain at work doesn't necessarily mean a condition is caused or aggravated by employment.
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.
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.
In the last of three related cases involving Nauru postings, a tribunal has upheld a decision to deny compensation to an interpreter who claimed she suffered a psychiatric injury from the abrupt and unjustified termination of her deployment.
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.
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.
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.