Western Australian Numbered Acts

WORKERS COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 2023 (NO. 21 OF 2023) - SECT 7

7 .         Exclusion of injury: reasonable administrative action

        (1)         In this section —

        administrative action includes any of the following actions —

            (a)         an appraisal of the worker’s performance;

            (b)         suspension action;

            (c)         disciplinary action;

            (d)         anything done in connection with an action described in paragraph (a), (b) or (c);

            (e)         anything done in connection with the worker’s demotion, dismissal or retrenchment, or the worker’s failure to obtain a promotion, reclassification, transfer or other benefit, or to retain any benefit, in connection with the worker’s employment.

        (2)         A psychological or psychiatric disorder, including any physiological effect of the disorder on the nervous system, that a worker experiences is not an injury from employment if it results wholly or predominantly from —

            (a)         administrative action, not being administrative action that is unreasonable and harsh on the part of the employer; or

            (b)         the worker’s expectation of administrative action or of a decision by the employer in relation to administrative action.