The Fair Work Commission has issued stop-bullying orders for an employer to review its disciplinary procedures, and for a bullied worker to comply with reasonable directions, to "reset the employment relationship" between the parties.
A worker who claimed her psychological injury arose from working 10 hours without a break to meet an unreasonable deadline has been denied workers' compensation, with a tribunal finding reasonable actions also contributed to her condition.
A commission has rejected an employer's argument that gossip about a worker being accused of theft formed part of the disciplinary process against him, disentitling him to workers' compensation for a mental injury.
An employer has been ordered to withdraw a letter reprimanding a worker for returning to work 15 minutes late after he attended a telephone conference with the Fair Work Commission about his stop-bullying application.
A worker who claims he suffered a psychological injury from his employer wrongfully initiating criminal charges against him, gave notice of the injury within the required time when he complained to an ombudsman, a court has found.
The Federal Court has upheld a ruling that a Government employer subjected a worker to unreasonable administrative action by giving him a bad performance review and transferring him when it couldn't explain what he'd done wrong.
A Commonwealth Bank of Australia employee has been denied workers' compensation for a psychological injury, which he claimed was caused by being reprimanded for "unethical selling" that his managers condoned and encouraged.
Woolworths has been ordered to pay more than $231,000 in damages to a worker who injured his shoulder under a system where he was pressured to perform repetitive lifting at high speed to meet performance targets.
A worker who claimed a manager singled him out and micromanaged him has been refused stop-bullying orders, in a case applying a 2015 test for unreasonable behaviour.
An employer took adverse action against a pregnant probationary employee in sacking her for "performance" reasons after she took several days off to manage her morning sickness, a court ruled.
