FWA: coal mine’s right to direct medical examination & to answer questions
Grant v BHP Coal Pty Ltd (No 2) FCA 1374 Dowsett, Barker and Rangiah JJ Background The appellant was…...
Category: Employment Law
Psychiatric injury: where personality conflict sounds in damages
Wearne v State of Victoria VSC 25 Dixon J The plaintiff was employed by the defendant as a case…...
WCRA: Forced blood and urine samples at work or not?
Pere v Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service QDC 2 Butler SC DCJ The plaintiff claimed negligence and assault…...
Swearing in the workplace: where should you draw the line?
Reproduced with permission of Corrs Chambers Westgarth lawyers By Simon Billing (Partner), Courtney Fiddian (Senior Associate) & Thalia Botsis (Graduate Lawyer) Is swearing ever…...
WCRA: NIIS Amendment Act Assented
Further to earlier posts the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation (National Injury Insurance Scheme) Amendment Act 2016 (Qld) received assent on 8 September 2016,…...
WCRA/FWA: Crossroads of Personal Injury & Adverse Action claims for lost income
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union v Hail Creek Coal Pty Ltd FCA 1032 The quantum decision of Reeves…...
HCA: can’t create a rooster, but call it a duck & insist that everybody else recognise it as a duck
Fair Work Ombudsman v Quest South Perth Holdings Pty Ltd HCA 45 (2 December 2015) I refer you to…...
WCRA: Thresholds abolished, lumps sums for gap period & Fire Fighter cancers protected
Further to the earlier post introducing the Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015. On 17 September…...
No implied term of good faith either
State of New South Wales v Shaw NSWCA 97 HEADNOTE – [This Headnote is not to be read as…...
Employment policies being contractual terms – take care
Gramotnev v Queensland University of Technology QCA 127 I refer to the earlier posting wherein McMeekin J’s decision was…...