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Australian researchers have found that while medical practitioners are regularly exposed to aggression from "external sources", bullying or abuse from co-workers has the greatest impact on their health and job satisfaction.

A worker who was repeatedly groped by her director has been awarded $733,000 in damages, after the NSW District Court found her employer exposed her to serious and immediate danger in failing to act on her complaints.

A worker who believes his poor health arose from his employer's "malevolently motivated micromanagement" of him has been denied a stop-bullying order.

The Fair Work Commission has received far fewer applications than expected under its new anti-bullying jurisdiction, but it has received more than 100,000 enquiries on the issue, and the application rate is gradually increasing, according to its annual report.

An employer has reduced staff turnover to nearly zero by providing workers with weekly massages, personal training and other perks to "take the stress out of the day", according to its business development manager.

• Returning expat miners could spread Ebola; and
  
• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

Reducing suicide rates under Mates in Construction's suicide-prevention strategy is not only good for workers and their families, but saves industry and government millions of dollars, according to a report.

• NSW Bill clarifies link between WHS Act and mining laws;
  
• NSW response to bullying inquiry quiet on proposed legislation; and
  
• BHPB appeals against $2.2m asbestos payout.

Proposed laws for protecting NSW public servants, and others excluded from the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions, should complement the Commonwealth legislation and be overseen by the State IRC, according to State Greens MP David Shoebridge.

• Change in work hours caused compensable psych injury; and
  
• Premium cuts in SA unlikely without proposed reforms.