The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a worker who threatened to shoot his supervisor was fairly sacked, and found the supervisor had reasonable grounds to be concerned about his safety.
Safety-undertaking pool tops $24m in Qld; Vic and Tas flag mandatory jail time for assaults on police; and WA considering exemptions to successful sentencing regime.
A major employer has been ordered to reinstate a worker who was sacked for starting a fight, while the Victorian Government has introduced a new system for responding to patient violence in public hospitals.
A Queensland employer, whose barman hit a customer in the head during an unruly work Christmas party, has lost its appeal against a $1.4 million damages ruling, after the Court of Appeal found the barman acted in the employer's interests.
A worker who claims she was forced to resign from her employment because her workplace wasn't safe, after a manager allegedly elbowed her down a flight of stairs, has had her unfair dismissal claim rejected.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered a workplace bully to refrain from commenting on his victim's clothes or appearance, as well as imposing a condition on the victim, in its first substantive anti-bullying order.
A psychologically injured worker who engaged in a "tug of war" with her supervisor during a "momentary lapse of judgement" should not have been sacked, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
In its first anti-bullying decisions, the Fair Work Commission has rejected two applications because the alleged bullying victims didn't pay their filing fees. Meanwhile, the Northern Territory has convicted 121 people under new laws aimed at protecting workers from violence.
A Queensland employer that was ordered to pay $369,000 in damages to a worker who injured herself walking backwards has successfully appealed the decision.
