Employers dealing with workplace bullying issues should identify "high-conflict behaviours" in staff, and reduce them using the "EAR response", says a conflict resolution expert.
The Fair Work Commission is seeking feedback on a draft stop-bullying form, which allows alleged victims of workplace bullying to specify what they think needs to be done to prevent the problem. Also in this article, a survey has found that half of the labour-hire workforce has witnessed colleagues being bullied.
A contractor who verbally and physically s-xually harassed his former manager has been ordered to pay her $476,000 in damages, after the Federal Court rejected his claim that the alleged incidents didn't occur in the workplace.
The Queensland IRC has rejected a worker's claim that he was conducting a role play on dealing with violent patients when he threatened to "smash" a female colleague's face through a door.
Public sector employers are being told to foster workplace cultures that align with the sector's core values of integrity, trust, service and accountability, after a report found anti-bullying policies aren't eliminating the problem.
A worker who assaulted his supervisor has lost a long-running unfair dismissal case, even though a Fair Work Commission full bench found the employer failed to take any steps to eliminate the supervisor's bullying behaviour.
What do you do if you are accused of workplace bullying? Safe Work Australia answers this question and more in two new anti-bullying guides. SWA has also released two new fatigue guides and the revised version of the construction work Code of Practice.
"Culturally and linguistically diverse" young workers, such as refugees and student workers, should be mentored on workplace health and safety, while all young workers need to be trained in conflict resolution, according to a new youth safety strategy.
The President of the Fair Work Commission has stressed that the new anti-bullying jurisdiction is not about penalising employers, in releasing two documents to help employers and workers know what to expect when it takes effect on 1 January.
A worker who was repeatedly s-xually harassed by her manager, before being sacked for complaining about it and suffering a psychiatric illness, has been awarded $100,000 in damages.
