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A judge has found a NSW employer and its director defamed a worker when they sent a group email to employees complaining about the amount of sick leave that she and other staff were taking.

A Sydney casino employee, who claimed he sustained a compensable journey injury when he was hit by a car on his way home from work, has been denied workers' compensation, after the WCC found he interrupted his journey by stopping at a bar to drink alcohol.

A NSW worker, who was injured when she took a foreseeable - but low - risk in attempting to step across a puddle to access her workplace, has been awarded more than $1.3 million in damages.

Two employers have been ordered to pay $2.3 million in damages to a worker who suffered extensive injuries when he fell through scaffolding that had been tampered with.

Comcare outlines policy on "accidental non-compliance" in draft; A thousand workers win workers' comp exemption in NSW; SA Greens progress firefighter Bill, call for "serious" anti-bullying laws; WorkCover NSW targeting glass businesses in wake of deaths, injuries; and Q-COMP releases new medical fees.

An injured NSW labour-hire worker has been awarded more than $750,000 in damages, after the District Court found his host employer excluded labour-hire workers from safe lifting inductions.

Employer fined over runaway truck death; and Failure to act on complaints costs employer $422k.

A NSW worker who repeatedly breached his employer's safety procedures has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected.

The boundaries between social events and work might have "eroded" in recent years, but that doesn't mean there are no boundaries at all, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled in a workers' comp case.

A NSW worker who fell from an unsecured platform has been awarded more than $1 million in damages, after the District Court found his employer failed to adequately supervise him.