A worker has failed to overturn a ruling that his health condition, aggravated from having to wear a mask at work at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, was not compensable.
While changing a worker's driving routes during the COVID-19 pandemic might have constituted reasonable management action, it was not the sole cause of the driver's adjustment disorder, an appeals commission has ruled, in upholding an earlier finding that the driver is totally incapacitated.
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 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.
Simple "how to" WHS Codes of Practice will be developed under an accepted recommendation from a major inquiry into a spike in agricultural fatalities, which identified risks created by COVID-19, unsuitable imported machinery and industrial manslaughter laws.
An employee who failed to complete his employer's "working from home" checklist, during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been awarded compensation, with a tribunal ruling his unergonomic home office set-up significantly contributed to his right shoulder injury.
In the latest of a long list of anti-vax disputes determined by Australian tribunals, a worker has unsuccessfully claimed that she delayed complying with a COVID-19 vaccination direction because she was concerned, as a lactating mother, for the health and safety of herself and her baby.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld the dismissal of a worker who contended he should not have been sacked for not getting vaccinated against COVID-19 because of his recent heart attack and leave status.
A Bill banning insurance against WHS penalties in the Commonwealth jurisdiction, and "lowering the bar" for safety convictions, has passed both houses of Parliament without amendment, despite one colourful senator describing it as "sneaky" and "dangerous" legislation, and others calling for provisions blocking vaccine mandates.