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An employee who injured her finger in a car park while retrieving work equipment successfully claimed workers’ compensation, with the NSW Personal Injury Commission ruling the car park as part of her workplace.

When a brick wall fell on a young man at a building site, impaling him on a large metal screw piling, his employer’s sole director found himself in the firing line. Read the court’s view of the site’s poor safety record.

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has overturned an employer’s claim that because a worker was an independent contractor, her unfair dismissal case could not be heard. Read why the FWC decided in the worker’s favour.

Was it fair to sack a forklift driver who’d smoked marijuana the night before an incident, though the employer had skipped the post-incident test required by company policy? Read why the FWC supported the employer’s decision.

The Fair Work Commission ruled that an electrician was unfairly dismissed after his employer chose to exclude a key witness from the investigation, resulting in a lack of evidence for the alleged misconduct.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has fined businesses almost $89,000 for misleading job advertisements. The workplace watchdog has also issued a stern warning to employers to refrain from advertising wages below the minimum rates stipulated by law.

A dismissal was deemed unfair after a 20-year employee violated workplace conduct policies he didn’t fully understand. The Fair Work Commission found that simply having policies in place isn’t enough; employers must ensure workers are properly trained on expected conduct, especially when cultural or language barriers exist.

In this article, we look at whether an employee can provide a certificate from a pharmacist as evidence of illness rather than from a doctor.