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A NSW worker who was seriously injured when he was struck and dragged by a forklift has been awarded more than $1.17 million in damages, after a judge found Boral Bricks' traffic management system was "cumbersome".

A Sydney employer "had no alternative" but to dismiss a worker with multiple health problems and a long history of sick leave, the NSW IRC has found in rejecting the man's reinstatement claim.

A NSW worker, who was severely injured and hasn't returned to work after he was involved in a punch-up with two colleagues, has been given a second chance to prove the fight occurred in the course of his employment.

An employer that "responded swiftly" to a worker's complaint of s-xual harassment by a manager was not vicariously liable for the manager's actions, the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal has found.

An ATO employee, who fell from a stretcher and fractured her elbow while being carted to an ambulance, has been denied workers' compensation. Also in this article, a NSW worker has been awarded compensation for a vacuuming injury.

A NSW employer has been ordered to pay workers' compensation to a subcontractor who was injured in his truck on his day off.

Two separate claims for compensation for hearing loss against NSW employers have been dismissed, after the WCC found one employer was not noisy, and the other was not the claimant's last noisy place of work.

A RailCorp manager who won about $100,000 at Australian and overseas poker tournaments while on sick leave was rightly sacked, a tribunal has found in dismissing, as "problematic", his claim that the "adrenalin" of poker improved his psychological health.

An employer whose two directors impulsively dismissed a manager for taking sick leave has been ordered to pay more than $115,000 in fines, compensation and costs.

An injured leading hand who was sacked after performing selected duties for more than a decade has failed in his bid for reinstatement, after the NSW IRC found it would be unreasonable to require his employer to "manufacture a job" to accommodate him.