Browsing: Workers' comp decisions (QLD) | Page 24

A Queensland worker who was injured in a motorcycle accident during the first stage of a journey to obtain work-related legal documents has been denied compensation.

A Queensland workers' compensation dispute has shown the serious consequences playing pranks at work can have for both workers and their employers.

Unsafe employer fined for abusing off-duty WorkCover inspector; Farmer's death highlights need to maintain and operate machinery to standard; and Employee deserved right of reply to "negative" survey results.

A Queensland employer that asked an unwitting worker about her s-x life during an internal inquiry has provided a valuable lesson on how not to manage a misconduct investigation.

A Queensland concreting employer has successfully argued that it sacked a team leader - who earned $1.50 an hour more than other employees - for "sound financial reasons", and not because of his back injury.

Fair Work Australia has upheld the summary dismissal of a Bunnings employee who allegedly threatened to shoot a customer services manager and was arrested by police at work.

A Queensland employer that failed to respond to an employee's "reasonable suspicions" that his co-workers were under the influence of alcohol has been ordered to compensate him for a psychological injury.

The Queensland Supreme Court has upheld a District Court decision and awarded $240,000 in damages to a secretary who was injured lifting a box of paper, after it rejected her employer's claim the lift was an "ordinary task".

Two Queensland employers that failed to alert employees to a trip hazard have been ordered to pay more than $550,000 to a worker who was injured while taking a shortcut over a knee-high barrier chain.

A mine worker who slipped while showering at an offsite camp has won compensation for an acute shoulder injury, with the Queensland IRC defining a "remote" site as one that is a long way from where a "substantial number" of its workers usually reside.