The anti-bullying provisions of the Fair Work Act are designed to protect employees from bullying rather than a worker's discomfort or perception of unreasonable behaviour, the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting a worker's claim.
Workers who are bullied are more likely to think about suicide, and organisational rather than individual interventions are needed to tackle the problem, Australian researchers have found.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected a bid for anti-bullying orders relating to Essential Energy's failure to provide two employees with meaningful work, but ordered the company to accept their applications for voluntary redundancy.
A former Qantas pilot who claimed he s-xually harassed a female colleague on a layover in Chile because his drink had been spiked, has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected by a Fair Work Commission full bench for the second time.
The Fair Work Commission has found an anti-bullying applicant couldn't be at risk of future bullying because she had elected to be "treated as being dismissed" in 2012, and even launched an unfair dismissal claim.
Comcare has successfully argued, on appeal, that a worker's psychiatric injury arose from reasonable administrative action, rather than the three years of bullying and harassment that allegedly preceded it.
Regulators should "join the criminal law dots" to ensure accommodation workplaces don't get away with WHS breaches, while legislators should develop guidance for these workplaces and amend the definition of "notifiable incident", according to a former WorkSafe Victoria prosecuting solicitor.
A supreme court judge has stressed that employers bear the onus of proving a "reasonably arguable case" against a workers' comp claim, and awarded compensation to a psychologically injured worker.
Workers in the health sector are at significant risk of being bullied and harassed because employers are failing to tackle the issue through risk management frameworks or hold senior staff accountable for inappropriate behaviour, the Victorian Auditor-General has found.
