Beyond the Workers’ Compensation Claim: What Queensland Courts Are Now Awarding for Psychiatric Injury at Work
A Queensland council paid $2.35 million to a former employee last year. Not for a physical injury. For a psychiatric injury caused by a fabricated email that a third party wrote in her name — and which the council failed to publicly correct. That figure is the point of this article. Employers have adjusted to the idea that psychological injury generates […]
