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A major South Australian employer's revised safety and rehabilitation policies contain an "inappropriately confined view" of what constitutes suitable employment for injured workers, the WCT has found.

A casual employee with a long-term work-related injury should be paid long service leave for 20 years of service, rather than 35 minutes worth of wages, a full Industrial Court in South Australia has confirmed.

Injured workers should follow their treating doctor's advice, and not the recommendations of a WorkCover medical panel, if the two opinions vary, a South Australian judge has ruled in a workers' comp dispute.

Workers' comp fraudster receives suspended prison sentence; SISA winners announced as new NCSI board elected; and National workplace death toll climbs to 116.

A South Australian worker's back injury arose from performing physical duties at work over 14 years, and not from moving furniture at home, as contended by his employer, the WCT has found.

Vexatious workers' comp litigant blocked by High Court; Workers rally on anniversary of offshore deaths; and Queensland worker killed by bi-fold workshop door.

Inghams Enterprises Pty Ltd has been ordered to pay two workers, in South Australia and NSW, weekly workers' compensation, after they sustained back injuries from repetitively lifting heavy objects.

A South Australian worker, whose psychological injury arose from perceived workplace bullying, has lost his workers' compensation bid, after the WCT found his managers' "less than perfect" behaviour was reasonable.

Victoria, South Australia and the Seacare scheme have the lowest return-to-work rates in the country, according to Safe Work Australia's new return-to-work "monitor". Also in this article, an Adelaide physio has been found guilty of overcharging WorkCover SA.

BHP Billiton Ltd has been ordered to pay a former worker, who now has mesothelioma, nearly $360,000, after the South Australian District Court rejected its claim that in the early 1960s it didn't have "actual knowledge" that low asbestos exposure was hazardous.