Are your employees 'safe' when working from home? The
timely NSW Court of Appeal decision in Workers Compensation
Nominal Insurer v Hill 1 explores
this issue and an employer's workers compensation risks for an
employee working from home.
Facts
The Deceased and her de-facto partner (the Defendant) were
employed by a family company as financial advisors. The Defendant
was, in effect, the Deceased's co-worker and supervisor. The
pair operated out of their family home in New South Wales, where
they resided with the Deceased's two dependent children.
The attack by the Defendant on 16 June 2010 was inspired by
paranoid delusions as he believed the Deceased was conspiring with
authorities to take his clients and ruin him professionally. The
Defendant was later found not guilty of her murder on the grounds
of mental illness.
