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An employer has successfully appealed a decision requiring it to reinstate a worker who was sacked for failing a drug test after crashing a ferry.

The Fair Work Commission's first substantive stop-bullying order has been amended to remove some of the less practical conditions required of the respondent.

The Fair Work Commission will allow an employer to be represented by a lawyer in an anti-bullying case to speed up the process, but has rejected its alternative claim that its managers and the alleged bullies are incapable of representing the company or themselves.

A worker who suffered a psychiatric injury when she was turned down for a promotion has been awarded workers' compensation, after the AAT found her manager - who held her in "very low regard" - should have been excluded from the recruitment process.

The $130,000 Oracle s-xual harassment case shows that "well-intentioned but unskilled attempts" to respond to workers' complaints can cause as much damage as harassment itself, according to a lawyer.

A worker who claims he was unfairly tested for drugs and sacked - less than three weeks after telling his manager he was trying to kick his cannabis addiction - posed an "unmanageable" safety risk to his employer, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An HR manager acted inappropriately in sending the details of her bullying complaint against her CEO to a potential witness who worked for another company, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled in dismissing her adverse action claim.

Employers have little to fear from the Fair Work Commission's new anti-bullying jurisdiction, with a "high number" of the applications received so far being resolved quickly and helping companies improve their HR practices, a conference has heard.

A Qantas employee who failed to change her notorious drinking habits was fairly sacked for turning up to an airport drunk, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Injured workers are "ill-prepared for the emotional experience" of the workers' comp system, and should be provided with peer support, a new report says.