A Federal public servant injured while having sex on a work trip will receive a payout from the Government after the Federal Court ruled she sustained the injury in the course of her employment.
The judge compared the woman’s sexual activity to “playing cards in her motel room”.
The woman, referred to as “PVYW” in the case was in her late 30s and employed in the human relations section of a Commonwealth Government agency when the injuries occurred.
She was on a work trip to a country town in New South Wales where she had a male friend she had met three or four weeks earlier.
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Cara Waters is a former SmartCompany editor. Previously, Cara was a senior reporter for the Financial Times’ website and worked for The Sunday Times in London.
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