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A worker who claimed his mental injury arose from being forced to perform unpaid overtime and having unclear finishing times had plenty of "downtime" during his shifts to complete his tasks, a commission has found.

An employer breached its duty of care to a worker attacked in its open car park at night in failing to instruct staff on what to do if they came across suspicious people on the premises, an appeals court has confirmed.

A worker who was injured slipping on a grape - in a sector not associated with produce - has been denied damages, with a court rejecting her claim that her employer negligently failed to warn her of the hazard and instruct her on how to avoid it.

A recent decision in South Australia's highest court has enlarged the circumstances in which injured workers' impairments can be combined for compensation purposes, while the Queensland Court of Appeal has found that applying for statutory benefits out of time doesn't block access to damages.

An employer could have complied with its duty of care to an assaulted worker, and avoided a $600,000 injury damages bill, by simply separating the worker and his assailant after being warned of the "ticking time bomb" situation, a court has found.

A worker has been denied compensation for a bullying-related psych injury, after a commission found his employer put an end to "workplace tricks and horseplay" and disciplined the main perpetrator months before his decompensation.

A manager's genuine attempts to relieve a worker's workload have defeated the latter's compensation claim for a psych injury, which she says arose from being ignored and left to "flounder".

An employer's decades-old agreement for employees to attend union meetings during work hours did not equate to encouraging attendance and making it liable for injuries sustained there, a judge has confirmed on appeal.

A company has been ordered to pay an injured worker $120,000 in damages, after a court found its order and delivery systems led to the man manually manoeuvring heavy objects.

The High Court has rejected another special leave application involving a work-related psychiatric injury in Queensland, with an employer being the losing party on this occasion.