A company that paid a "contractor" an hourly rate could be held liable for his heart attack death, with a tribunal finding the man's past business patterns and work with other companies are not determinative of whether he was a "worker" when he died.
An employer has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 to an apprentice who was injured slipping over, in a case highlighting the importance of ensuring workers routinely inspect and clean surfaces, including those under movable equipment.
An employer negligently allowed a worker to carry out manual handling tasks on an "unpredictable" surface, a court has found in awarding the man nearly $450,000 in injury damages.
Performance appraisals are formal processes to assess a worker's "overall" performance and don't include employers informally managing specific problems with their work, a tribunal has ruled in an injury dispute.
An injured worker whose unfair dismissal claim was rejected by the Fair Work Commission, before he was reinstated under workers' comp laws, has failed in his bid for back pay and other entitlements.
A host employer breached its duty of care to a worker by allowing him to work in a poorly lit area and failing to act on his request for better lighting, a court has ruled.
An appeals court has rejected claims that a knee replacement isn't a compensable "artificial aid" because it involves interfering with the body and doesn't involve an object that is "complete in itself", like a crutch or hearing aid.
A worker who attended work on his day off, before "volunteering" to help with cleaning duties and falling off a ladder, was injured in the course of his employment, an arbitrator has ruled.
An appeals court has upheld an injured worker's claim that the absence of "contemporaneous" complaints of symptoms didn't automatically defeat his lump sum claim.
An injured worker's employment conditions after a council amalgamation, including an increased workload and having to use new software she couldn't get the hang of, did not fall within the meaning of reasonable actions taken with respect to her transfer, a commission has found.
