An employer has been handed a $1.3 million compensation bill, just days after being fined for taking adverse action against an injured worker for exercising his workplace right to sue for damages.
The wife of a man killed in a work-related car crash has been refused workers' compensation, after a tribunal found the man was a de facto company director rather than a "worker".
An employer breached its duty of care to a worker in encouraging her to take on a client with a known history of substance abuse and violent behaviour, who s-xually assaulted her, a superior court has found.
A Qantas employee falsely accused of s-xual assault and jailed in the US has been awarded compensation for PTSD on appeal, in the second case in three months involving a tribunal's misapplication of the High Court "interval" test.
A worker who felt she was unfairly denied workers' compensation was given the false impression that her alternative anti-discrimination claim could succeed, a tribunal has found.
A worker's psychiatric injury arose out of reasonable management action carried out in an unreasonable and "extreme" manner, a commission has found in upholding his compensation claim.
An injured worker has failed to convince an appeal court that his employer was negligent in failing to train him on how to replace a specific piece of pipework containing caustic solution.
An employer has been found vicariously liable for a manager bullying and overworking an employee, and ordered to pay the employee $436,000 in damages for a psychiatric injury.
