A major employer has unsuccessfully argued that the Fair Work Commission only has jurisdiction to make stop-bullying orders if there is a "discernibly identifiable" rather than "speculative" risk of the applicant being bullied in future.
A worker who complained of bullying before being sacked for refusing to see a company-nominated doctor, after a one-day absence, has been awarded nearly $44,000.
A worker who claims he was bullied and sacked for reporting WHS concerns to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been denied an unfair dismissal remedy.
The head of the Fair Work Commission's anti-bullying panel has flagged the possibility of ordering employers to restore personal leave days to workers who have taken time off work because of bullying and harassment.
Comcare has applied for special leave to appeal to the High Court against a recent full Federal Court decision on a psych injury and the reasonable-administrative-action exclusion in the SRC Act.
A worker who had a car crash, while driving to meet her employer after being abused by her manager and quitting her job, was injured in the course of her employment, a commission has found.
In a case examining the meaning of "worker" under WHS laws, the Fair Work Commission has found the "benefits" a woman received as a volunteer didn't make her eligible to seek stop-bullying orders.
An employer has been ordered to pay a worker $1.3 million in damages for PTSD and bipolar disorder, after she was repeatedly s-xually harassed and a colleague threatened to rape her.
