Supervisor pointed gun at worker, caused psych injury
A worker who claimed his supervisor held a gun to his chest, and repeatedly bullied him for being "too old" to return to work after being injured, has been awarded workers' compensation.
A worker who claimed his supervisor held a gun to his chest, and repeatedly bullied him for being "too old" to return to work after being injured, has been awarded workers' compensation.
Woolworths Ltd has an arguable case against a recent finding that a worker's ignorance of the stop-bullying jurisdiction justified her very late unfair dismissal claim, a commission has found. Meanwhile, a court has found an employer took adverse action against a pregnant worker by making her redundant two days before she went on maternity leave.
Establishing a post-incident framework where workers feel safe to report bullying and harassment is a vital step to ending bystander silence, a survey report on bullying and discrimination among doctors says.
A worker who sustained a psychological injury, as a result of her employer rejecting her application for assistance in undertaking a law degree, has failed in her bid for workers' compensation.
A superior court has found a major employer harassed a female employee for suffering a gynaecological disability requiring extended absences, but stressed that employers aren't obliged to grant unpaid sick leave to such workers. Meanwhile, a s-xually-harassed apprentice has been awarded $30,000 in compensation.
An employer charged with discriminating against workers for raising an OHS issue has failed to convince a superior court that the Crown must prove, beyond reasonable doubt, that the workers raised the issue on "reasonable grounds" and believed the threats made against them would be carried out.
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