An employer has been deemed vicariously liable for the actions of a worker who negligently failed to safely reverse a forklift, causing a collision that injured one of his colleagues.
A commission has rejected an employer's contentions that: a "violent and painful" work incident could not have caused a worker's stress disorder; and her ability to undertake "suitable duties" not long after the incident blocked her incapacity claim.
A long-serving worker who experienced five years of bullying from a co-worker in the form of verbal threats and aggression has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, after the bully was promoted to be his supervisor.
A police officer psychologically injured from working on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been awarded more than $1.8 million in damages, in a case examining the obligations of employers to oversee their employee assistance programs.
A worker who sustained a psychological injury, after her employer started monitoring her work schedule, has won her bid for compensation, with a commission finding the actions of her team leader didn't constitute a "performance appraisal" invoking the reasonable-action defence.
A worker has proved her post-traumatic stress disorder was caused by traumatic incidents throughout her lengthy employment, with a commission rejecting her employer's claim her injury resulted from reasonable action taken after she refused to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
A court has ordered two companies to pay more than $1.6 million in damages to a labour-hire worker, who was injured performing a "mundane" task that was unsafe because it "included a tripping hazard as an integral part of its operation".
An employer has failed to convince a tribunal that lifting and twisting doesn't cause hernias, in seeking to avoid liability for an injury it argued was "almost certainly pre-existing".
The serious injuries sustained by a worker when she fell down her stairs at home were consequent upon previous workplace injuries, a commission has ruled, rejecting medical opinions that the events were unrelated.
An employer has unsuccessfully challenged a hearing-loss claim by contending most of its equipment satisfied workplace health and safety requirements for lack of noisiness, with a commission finding at least one of its leaf blowers didn't fit into this category.