The Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Tribunal in Tasmania has ruled in the ‘high heels’ case. A worker made a claim for compensation in which she describes suffering an injury that involved her right foot, which she asserts was due to the extent of walking she was required to do in the course of her employment. But the tribunal raised a secondary issue which it did not rule on as neither party raised the issue. Even if the injury was triggered in the claimant’s ‘personal life’, it is open to the tribunal to rule against the employer if the employee aggravates the pre-existing disease as a result of the walking required in the workers employment duties.
