Employers are being urged to "take the moral choice" of reducing job demands or at least increasing resources, after a national survey of school principals showed the "sheer quantity" of work is their greatest source of stress.
A manager's response to a worker's s-xual harassment complaint was "entirely misplaced in a work environment", a commission has found in awarding the woman compensation for a psychological injury.
A worker has failed to convince a judge that her employer knew she was suffering from depression when it disciplined her for performance issues because she sobbed throughout the disciplinary meeting.
In a long-running workplace bullying dispute involving insulting Facebook posts and an employee "Code of Silence", the Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to train managers in forensic investigative techniques and arrange meetings with a safety inspector.
A tribunal has found there was an "unbroken chain of causation" between a worker's compensable psychiatric injury and his death five years after quitting his job, but rejected his ex-wife's bid for death benefits.
Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy that addresses anxiety disorders at work is both clinically effective and cost-effective for employers, UK researchers have found.
A young Sydney lawyer, who like thousands of his colleagues struggled with depression at the outset of his career, has explained in a new book how to unwind when you're "stressed at [your] desk".
A worker with "creeping trauma" has been awarded nearly $1 million in damages, after a court found his employer repeatedly failed to counsel him after he witnessed "gruesome" events and admitted he was struggling with work.
Employers must approach workers who take sick leave after complaining of workplace bullying with caution, but also ensure such workers participate in investigations, a senior Fair Work Commission member says in a new book.
Western Australia will amend existing safety Codes of Practice, rather than introduce a new Code, to improve FIFO workers' mental health, according to the State Government's response to the inquiry into the issue. The Government declined to support a recommendation to acknowledge that FIFO workers are at risk of suicide.
