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Four ACT employers have been ordered to pay $705,000 in damages to a concreter who was injured when he fell from an unsecured ladder.

A Queensland worker, who was required - because of his high absence rate - to provide a medical certificate every time he took sick leave, was fairly sacked for failing to comply with the rule, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A Tasmanian worker met the requirement to give notice of an injury "as soon as practicable" when he told his employer he was in pain on the day the injury occurred, a tribunal has ruled in a workers' comp dispute.

The former CEO of a Western Australian council - whose hepatitis C condition was revealed to co-workers, the media and government agencies - has had his discrimination claim dismissed, even though the Federal Magistrates Court found he was discriminated against.

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 Queensland union employee has been awarded workers' compensation for a psychological injury, after the Industrial Relations Commission found her manager humiliated her in front of colleagues during a meeting.

An injured ACT worker, who was prosecuted for misusing a company travel card and claimed the process caused her stress, has failed to regain her workers' compensation benefits.

In this update, OHS Alert outlines all the important workplace health and safety and workers' compensation legislative changes made in the final quarter of 2012. We also recap the most significant court and tribunal rulings and other developments in all jurisdictions.

A female Queensland worker, who suffered a psychological injury after using shared toilet facilities, has had her compensation appeal dismissed in the Industrial Court. Also in this article, two employers have been fined for guarding and emergency-rescue breaches.

Motel rendezvous dispute goes to High Court; and Victorian employer fined $375k for exclusion-zone breach after death.