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An employer was entitled to cease income support payments to an injured worker, a tribunal has ruled, finding she breached her "obligation of mutuality" by engaging in serious misconduct, which included disclosing a director's alleged gambling problem to a subcontractor.

A major employer's attempts to implement a government-imposed COVID-19 vaccine mandate were "draconian" and unreasonably psychologically injured a worker, an appeals commission has confirmed.

• "Swearing" constituted unsafe workplace harassment; and
  
• Workplace safety fraudsters face big fines under rail amendments.

The Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of a financial adviser who refused to take a drug and alcohol test after turning up to work showing signs of intoxication.

A Federal judge has found that selecting a worker for redundancy after he raised multiple workplace concerns, including safety issues surrounding unlicensed work, constituted unlawful adverse action. The judge found the man's employer deliberately marked his performance down to justify his termination.

A commissioner has criticised a major employer's "tick and flick" training on its safety and conduct policies, but stressed that workers should not need a training course to know when certain actions are wrong, in unfair dismissal rulings involving members of a Facebook group sharing explicit materials.

A worker who was sacked after using both self-defence and unnecessary force to restrain a violent client has been awarded compensation, with a commission finding he wasn't alerted to an internal appeals process prior to his dismissal.

An employer and its HR manager have been penalised for unlawful adverse actions, after a "welfare check" on a worker quickly escalated into her dismissal because the manager didn't want to deal with her bullying allegations.

A worker who claimed he suffered a psychological injury from being accused of s-xual harassment has been denied compensation, with a tribunal ruling his stress reaction was "understandable" but did not constitute a mental condition.

A financial analyst who claimed she was required to work 16 hours per weekday, and up to eight hours every weekend, has failed to prove her employer breached the reasonable hours provisions of the Fair Work Act.