Special protections for first responders with post-traumatic stress disorder are among the "urgent worker safety measures", in the Federal Government's Closing Loopholes Bill, which two crossbench senators are attempting to fast-track through four separate pieces of legislation.
A court has thrown out a worker's claim that an employer negligently exposed her to workplace bullying, finding some of the alleged acts of bullying involved efforts to maintain safety standards and enforce lawful directions.
An employer that failed to carry out a "diligent investigation" into serious allegations against a worker has been found liable for his psychological injury.
A worker has been awarded permanent impairment compensation for his psychological injury, after a tribunal accepted he was unlikely to benefit from further rehabilitative treatment due to his personality and mindset.
A worker who fell from a ladder at home and broke her wrist has proved the injury was causally connected to her work-related knee injury, with a commission ordering her former employer to pay for all her reasonably necessary medical treatments.
An injured worker has failed, in a superior court, to overturn a medical panel decision that she has a whole person impairment of zero per cent. She contended it couldn't be zero because her scans showed "some sort of pathology".
An injured worker's computer illiteracy has influenced a judgment ruling out, as suitable employment, two sedentary roles an employer claims she could perform in lieu of receiving compensation if she honed her skills in a training course.
A manager's evidence on the support a worker received has helped establish a reasonably arguable case against the worker's claim that alleged bullying and work stress caused her psychological condition.
