A Victorian human services worker, who left a resident with disability on the side of the road 76km away from his home, sustained a compensable psychological injury as a result of her employer's protracted investigation into the incident, a magistrate has found.
The State of Victoria has been ordered to pay $250,000 in damages to a police officer who sustained a psychological injury and tried to commit suicide after being bullied by a supervisor. The Court of Appeal rejected the State's claim that the officer had been contributorily negligent in failing to make a complaint about the bullying.
The Victorian Court of Appeal has confirmed that a labour-hire worker, who claimed he couldn't pursue his chosen career because of an injury, wasn't particularly interested in the job, and isn't entitled to damages for pain.
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An employer that failed to risk assess a task that injured a worker has been cleared of liability to pay him damages, with the Victorian Court of Appeal accepting that an assessment would not have caused changes to the system of work.
A Victorian amputee, who fraudulently obtained more than $112,000 in workers' comp benefits with the help of six complicit care providers, has been jailed for 16 months.
A Victorian abattoir has been found guilty over the death of an untrained worker who was crushed while cleaning a knocking box. Meanwhile, four other employers in the State have been ordered to pay a total of nearly $300,000 in penalties and costs for OHS and RTW breaches.
Two Victorian workers, whose weekly workers' compensation payments were terminated after 130 weeks, have had their benefits reinstated, after the Magistrates Court found the proposed alternative occupations for the workers are unrealistic.
An independent contractor has been found vicariously liable for the actions of a man who started a fire that injured a worker, while the worker's employer - which failed to implement an OHS plan for hot work - has been ordered to pay 60 per cent of the injury damages bill.
Employers don't necessarily need to give a worker notice of a meeting, or invite the worker to have a support person present, if the meeting is not of a disciplinary nature, the Victorian Magistrates Court has ruled in a workers' comp dispute.
