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• Heavy penalty for injury-causing ageism locked in; and
  
• Sentences for injury fraud come with jail warning.

The Federal Court has overturned a finding that two union officials made homophobic slurs towards a project's safety advisor. The Court reduced their pecuniary penalties, but confirmed they "deliberately" breached the site's WHS requirements.

The Federal Court has increased a damages award by more than $200,000 for a worker, now in his 70s, who suffered a psychiatric injury from feeling pressured to retire. However, it rejected the worker's claim his employer's actions involved a work health and safety breach.

Qantas has failed in its second attempt to stay proceedings, which include alternative charges, involving its alleged discriminatory conduct against an elected health and safety representative in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A government employer has failed in its latest challenge against a finding that it is liable for a worker's psychological injury caused by a colleague's racist taunts, this time arguing the courts ignored an "admission" of a pre-existing mental illness diagnosis.

• Another jurisdiction opts for positive anti-harassment duties; and
  
• New WHS minister appointed in NSW.

An actor suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, from a particularly traumatic event that occurred while she was working with children in a hospital, has been blocked from bringing a general protections claim - involving alleged first-aid failings - because she had an anti-discrimination claim on foot at the same time.

• New WHS laws, codes and bans to follow NSW election; and
  
• Positive harassment-elimination duties pass in ACT.

An employer unlawfully discriminated against a job applicant with disabilities through its HR manager's "impressionistic" conclusion that employing her would involve safety risks and possible breaches of WHS laws, a tribunal has found.

A tribunal has highlighted the proactive safety duties of employers and slammed a company director and a manager for their responses to a worker's complaint about a colleague staring at her breasts.