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NSW IRC President Justice Roger Boland has slammed WorkCover for its "secrecy", in rejecting its application to adjourn nine OHS prosecutions currently before the Industrial Court.

In an important decision, Fair Work Australia has questioned whether it was "really the intention" of a RailCorp enterprise agreement to compensate a worker for a 13-hour medical examination - which he slept through.

Industrial deafness claimants must be able to prove their workplaces are "noisy" environments, a NSW arbitrator has found in rejecting a truck driver's claim.

A judge has stressed that employers are obliged to communicate company policies to staff in "clear and unambiguous terms", in awarding workers' compensation to a Jetstar flight attendant who was issued a final warning for drinking alcohol on a plane.

More workers could be encouraged to claim compensation for work-related hearing loss, after the NSW WCC found that tinnitus can tip claimants over the permanent impairment threshold.

A mining employer has been ordered to pay an injured labour-hire worker - who fell from a steep ladder on a 50-tonne dump truck - more than $1.2 million, after the NSW Court of Appeal confirmed that "common practice was not necessarily prudent practice".

S-x-related workers' comp claim proceeds to Federal Court; Victorian employer that overlooked cheap, safe procedure fined $80K; Workers' comp fraudster caught after advertising second job; and Rail operators urged to crack down on Kronic.

A serial "prankster" whose conduct caused an injury would not have been deterred by the threat of dismissal, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled in rejecting a worker's $550,000 damages claim.

A NSW worker who was seriously injured at a late night party at her employer's premises has won compensation, in a case that sends a warning to all employers on their liability in cases involving social functions.

NSW employer Dairy Farmers did everything in its power to ensure staff understood its code of conduct and email policy, Fair Work Australia has ruled, in finding seven employees were rightly sacked for distributing inappropriate emails.