The Tasmanian Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Tribunal has awarded costs to C. McKenzie in a claim against the Department of Health and Human Services.
July 12, 2016
Vicky Maree Crane has convinced the NSW Workers Compensation Commission to rehear her injury claim against Integrated Living Australia Limited.
July 12, 2016
Griselda Kapp has also been able to convince the NSW Workers Compensation Commission to revisit her injury claim against St Joseph’s Village Limited.
July 12, 2016
Warrigal Pty Limited (trading as Warrigal Care) has been ordered by the NSW Worker Compensation to pay Kelly Crowther over $50,000 for a shoulder injury and an additional impact to her cervical spine triggered in the course of her employment.
July 12, 2016
Ishrat Kathia has failed to convince the NSW Workers Compensation Tribunal to overturn its previous view of her injury sustained whilst in the employ of Frank Whiddon Masonic Homes of NSW.
July 12, 2016
The Health Services Union has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission to impose a bargaining order on Goodwin Aged Care Services Limited T/A Goodwin.
July 12, 2016
An ACT public servant who claimed she suffered a psychological injury because of bullying and harassment has lost a bid for compensation. The woman, who worked for ACT Health since 2002, claimed she suffered a “major depressive disorder” after a meeting over complaints she had been rude and disrespectful to other staff. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has now upheld a decision by Comcare to refuse compensation to the woman who claimed she suffered a psychological injury which developed as a result of “bullying and harassment by [a] senior officer”. Comcare accepted the woman did suffer a single episode major depressive disorder which was to a significant degree contributed to by her employment with ACT Health, the AAT judgment said. The tribunal was told the woman had a meeting with her manager and her manager’s manager where she told about complaints that she had dealt with some staff in a “rude and disrespectful manner”. In upholding Comcare’s decision to refuse the woman compensation, the tribunal found the meeting and what her superiors did at the meeting amounted to “reasonable administrative action taken in a reasonable manner in respect of [her] employment”. The tribunal found because the meeting was “reasonable administrative action take in a reasonable manner”, her disease was “excluded from the definition of injury” meaning Comcare was not liable to pay her compensation. The tribunal found the meeting could have been “conducted more reasonably” such as by allowing the woman to bring a support person with her, raising positive aspects of her work performances or asking her if she wanted the meeting adjourned when she became upset. “But the fact that the meeting could have been conducted more reasonably does not make it unreasonable,” the tribunal found.
July 12, 2016
A doctor who disclosed a man’s “delusional” medical history in a discussion about Islamic faith has been ordered to pay $10,000 compensation following a privacy invasion ruling. The man had abandoned the religion and claimed the doctor maliciously emailed sensitive, inaccurate information to others to persuade his community a serious illness was the reason he renounced. The pair, who had known each other and attended religious services for years, can’t be named. Acting Australian Information Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim recently ruled there was no evidence of malicious intent, as alleged, or of a dishonest “delusional depression” diagnosis for a prior illness. However, the GP should not have divulged medical information to the third parties without consent. The detail was sent in an email last January to the man and six other people, including his sons and friends, in response to his request for answers to religious questions. The commissioner ordered him to pay damages for the distress and injured feelings the privacy invasion caused.
