Showing posts with label Worker's compensation benefit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Worker's compensation benefit. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Australian court holds no worker's compensation benefit for sex-related injury.


An Australian government employee who was injured while having sex on a work-related trip doesn’t qualify for workers’ compensation, the nation’s highest court said in a ruling praised by the employment minister.
The High Court of Australia today overturned a federal appeal court ruling that the woman was hurt during a work interlude and entitled to compensation from Comcare, the country’s work safety agency that pays for medical expenses and time missed from work as a result of injury.
 
article here.