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An employer that sacked a male worker for abusing a female colleague - his former lover - but didn't sack the colleague when she behaved in the same way, has been ordered to reinstate the man.

Employers are being urged to take 13 steps to create mentally healthy workplaces.

A workplace manager's application for stop-bullying orders against her employer and a subordinate has been rejected, with a Commissioner stressing that "reasonable management action" has a "wide meaning" under the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions.

A recent case involving a worker who was awarded $240,000 in damages - after being bullied for just 11 days - demonstrates how important it is to proactively respond to all workplace bullying complaints, according to employment and safety lawyer Hedy Cray.

A NSW employer should have considered fining, demoting or counselling a worker instead of sacking him after he squeezed five women's breasts at a work Christmas function, the IRC has ruled.

Man fined for WHS "fixtures" breach after child killed; and Queensland replaces Harassment Code with anti-bullying guides.

Workers in the clerical and retail industries lodged the most applications for stop-bullying orders in the first three months of 2014, according to the Fair Work Commission's first anti-bullying quarterly report.

An employer that ignored a worker's "clear signs of distress", and then told her she had to return to a role where managers bullied her, has been found liable for her psychological injury.

The Fair Work Commission should place little weight on workplace bullying investigations - when determining anti-bullying applications - unless it is satisfied the investigation was conducted "rigorously, impartially and independently", a leading employment lawyer says.

The Fair Work Commission has outlined a number of working arrangements that aren't covered by its anti-bullying jurisdiction or the model WHS Act, in rejecting a carer's application for stop-bullying orders against Centrelink employees.