I’ve been trying to keep up with mutual obligation requirements while already feeling pretty stretched, and it’s starting to feel a bit hard to juggle everything at once. How are people actually managing it when study, work, and everything else already fills most of the week, and there’s not much breathing room left?
I recently lodged a WorkCover claim for a diagnosed psychological injury brought on by an absolutely unmanageable workload surge after half our team resigned. My claim was just rejected by the agent. The rejection letter explicitly uses the wording from the modernised Act, claiming that my stress was caused by "events that are considered usual or typical and reasonably expected to occur in the course of duties." How on earth are workers supposed to prove that toxic management and extreme understaffing aren't "normal" workplace expectations? If you successfully overturned a rejection like this at the Workplace Injury Commission, what evidence did you need?