An employer was not vicariously liable for a manager's Facebook posts purportedly abusing a worker, a judge has ruled in rejecting a $570,000 psychiatric and physical injury claim.
A worker has unsuccessfully argued, on appeal, that he had been too intoxicated to consent to alcohol testing at work, and being subjected to the humiliating process psychologically injured him.
An employer did not breach its duty of care when it ordered a worker to drive a truck with a broken seat, resulting in him suffering a back injury, because the worker didn't report experiencing pain at the time, a superior court has found.
Employers have a duty of care to consider blocking workers from undertaking risks, even where a worker's professional judgement is that the risk is "worth running" and they have the necessary expertise, an appeals court has found in upholding a $1.5 damages award.
A worker has been granted special leave to appeal to the High Court against a ruling that her employer didn't have a duty to protect her psychological health from investigation letters blaming her for a violent altercation and threatening her employment.
An injured worker has been awarded nearly $1.7 million after a labour-hire employee negligently caused a collision, with a court finding the labour-hire company never transferred control of its employee to the site operator.
A major employer has been ordered to pay a worker $47,676 for dismissing him for failing to evacuate after an explosion, with a commission finding the evacuation procedures were neither clearly understood nor consistently applied.
An employer has been ordered to pay more than $1.7 million in damages to a manager who was forced into medical retirement after a new CEO repeatedly "harassed, mistreated, devalued and undermined" her for 11 months.
Woolworths has been ordered to pay more than $231,000 in damages to a worker who injured his shoulder under a system where he was pressured to perform repetitive lifting at high speed to meet performance targets.
A worker has been denied compensation for industrial deafness because he failed to meet any of the three criteria for eligibility. Meanwhile, a worker has failed, on appeal, to prove exposure to workplace alarms caused his hearing loss.
