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The build-up of stress in the workplace can cause damaging effects on a person. Find out how to avoid a workers' compensation case of this nature.

Making the penalty fit the offence was the focus of a case where the employer had failed to check its obligations in relation to payment of an employee for his accrued annual leave, on termination of his employment.

An employer exacerbated an employee's PTSD by transferring her to a role that exposed her to more trauma. 

Does an employee’s absence on 12 months' unpaid parental leave affect the amount of redundancy pay payable on termination? 

When an employee becomes ill while on long service leave, is the employer obliged to allow the employee to take personal leave instead, and re-credit the long service leave?

Can you absorb prescribed award wage rate increases into existing over-award payments? Read an explanation of what employers are (and are not) allowed to do here.

When an employee works overtime without authorisation, they are generally not entitled to payment of overtime or penalty rates.