Two workers who persistently humiliated a colleague in front of others "contributed to the creation [of] an unsafe workplace" and were rightly sacked, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A worker who felt she was unfairly denied workers' compensation was given the false impression that her alternative anti-discrimination claim could succeed, a tribunal has found.
Workers are more likely to believe they're being bullied when they're under stress, but motivating factors like good salary, plentiful resources and constructive feedback can alleviate that stress, researchers have found.
A worker has been denied workers' compensation after a court found her psychiatric injury was partly caused by a poor performance review, even after accepting that the other contributing factors included possible bullying.
A manager's micromanagement of his staff amounted to bullying and constituted a valid reason for his dismissal, even though he was unaware of the damage he was causing, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer has been found vicariously liable for a manager bullying and overworking an employee, and ordered to pay the employee $436,000 in damages for a psychiatric injury.
In a rare case, an employer has been fined for breaching OHS laws in relentlessly bullying a teenage apprentice, who now suffers from anxiety and depression.
The NSW Government has provided no evidence that any of the thousands of injured workers who exited the workers' comp scheme and "returned to work" after the 2012 overhaul are now in "long-term, sustainable" employment, a major report has found.
A sacked worker has failed to convince a commission that his use of the term "gringo", while abusing a South American colleague, wasn't racist because it was a non-derogatory slang word he'd picked up on a trip to the US.
An employer that unfairly sacked a worker for bullying and unsafe work practices has defeated the man's reinstatement claim, after a commission found it repeatedly tried to train him to comply with its code of conduct before dismissing him.
