An employer has satisfied its reverse onus of proof in an adverse action case, with a court agreeing that it dismissed a worker for being unable to fulfil the inherent requirements of her role, and not because she planned to seek stop-bullying orders in the Fair Work Commission.
The first step to tackling the six principal causes of workplace stress is establishing a working group of OHS specialists, managers and worker representatives to oversee a special risk assessment process, a new UK guide says.
An employer should have thoroughly investigated an injured worker's allegations of bullying before dismissing her for being unable to perform the inherent requirements of her job, a Fair Work Commissioner says.
A commission has upheld the dismissal of a worker for regaling colleagues with "lurid" details of his s-x life and constantly making dirty jokes, after finding that his lack of anti-bullying training was irrelevant.
A PCBU cannot block union entry while conducting its own investigation into possible WHS breaches, or require permit holders to give 24 hours' notice before viewing related documents, a commissioner has ruled in a bullying dispute.
An employer has been found vicariously liable for a s-xual assault on a worker, and ordered to pay part of her $313,316 damages award, after a tribunal rejected its claim that it could not have prevented the incident.
A self-proclaimed "big fish" in a workplace, which was issued stop-bullying orders, was fairly sacked because he chose to "buy in" to the matter and intimidated the victims, the Fair Work Commission has found.
One of Australia's oldest employers will establish a complaints resolution unit, staffed by professional mediators, to tackle workplace bullying and harassment, after committing to all recommendations of an equal opportunity review.
An OHS regulator has busted a range of myths about what workers can and can't do under safety laws in the lead up to Christmas, while a lawyer has advised employers to press ahead with "good behaviour" emails for work functions, despite these messages being widely mocked by staff.
