A public servant injured during a sexual encounter on a business trip will not receive any compensation.
The woman, who faced a nose injury and damaged teeth resulting from the ‘passionate moment’ in 2007, had her compensation request rejected by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Her injuries happened when a glass light fixture detached from the wall while she was intimate with a man in a rural area.
At the appeal hearing, counsel for the work safety agency Comcare explained that only specific circumstances could warrant compensation for an applicant’s ‘frolic of their own.’
Andrew Berger stated that she should have informed her employer of her intentions to engage in a private activity if she wanted to be eligible for worker’s compensation.
‘It is not fair for taxpayers to cover the costs associated with activities that are fundamentally private,’ he remarked.
by Harry Harper
