Psychological injuries & claims | Page 15 (266 items)

The Federal Court has dismissed an appeal by an employee who claimed workplace bullying and harassment aggravated his underlying psychological condition.

An employee who claimed she was forced to "dance through hoops" to progress in her career, but ultimately "went nowhere", has won compensation for a psychological injury.

A workers' compensation overhaul could have far-reaching consequences for workers suffering from burnout and stress, and for their employers, a specialist warns.

An employer should have provided more "positive support" to a worker after he was assaulted by his supervisor, a court has ruled in awarding him $148k in damages for a psychological injury.

An employer has failed to prove it took reasonable disciplinary action against an employee facing sexual harassment allegations, and that it wasn't liable for his resulting psychological injury.

Three months was a "reasonable" amount of time to wait and see if an employee recovered from a psychological injury so he could return to work, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.

An employer's enquiry into a worker's serious privacy breach caused her psychological injury, but it was a "necessary first step" in a reasonable disciplinary process, a commission has ruled.

An organisation-wide performance assessment was a "stressful exercise" for participating employees, but it was nonetheless "necessary", and reasonable, a tribunal has found in rejecting a psychological injury claim.

An employee's "understandable" response to s-xual harassment allegations against him wasn't "outside the boundaries of normal mental function", a tribunal has ruled in rejecting his workers' compensation claim.

An employer has failed to prove an employee's psychological condition was a "grief reaction" to her father's death, and not caused by her poor workplace relationship with a supervisor.