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Different forms of verbal aggression have different effects on workers' mental health, according to a unique study, which found supervisors are common perpetrators of abuse and need special training to help staff achieve psychological detachment from work.

A worker has lost her claim she was forced to resign by workplace bullying and being blocked from working exclusively from home to protect herself, with a commission finding her employer was accommodating and receptive to her concerns.

Workers in the legal profession will reveal whether their employers are complying with their proactive duties to tackle bullying and harassment, under a follow-up equal opportunity review announced in South Australia. Meanwhile, safety professionals have been asked to apply to present on ideas for improving WHS outcomes in Tasmania.

A major study traversing the past four years has revealed that students are the most frequent perpetrators of digital harassment of Australia's university staff, and senior managers in the sector are not doing enough to safeguard workers' psychological health.

A worker who was required to take on management duties and sack a worker, despite not being trained in such processes, has been awarded compensation for a psychological injury, with a commission rejecting her employer's reasonable-action defence.

A regulator's claim that to prevent double-dipping it is entitled to recover compensation payments from a worker who received a s-x-discrimination settlement, could, if accepted, have a "chilling effect on the bringing of such complaints" and undermine anti-discrimination laws, a full Federal Court has warned.

A sacked worker has unsuccessfully argued his sarcastic comments about a co-worker being "m-lested" didn't constitute workplace s-xual harassment, but won his unfair dismissal case.

A worker has failed to overturn a decision that events in her personal life overshadowed the links between alleged workplace bullying and harassment and her aggravated psychological condition.

• New and existing psychosocial Codes must be applied together;
  
• WHS Code amended to address major fatality risk; and
  
• RTW guide and template released.

A tribunal has granted a regulator access to an injured worker's medical records from 13 different entities, finding her objections around privacy were understandable but outweighed by other considerations.