A manager bullied his subordinates by humiliating them when they made errors or deviated from his interpretation of company practices, a commissioner has found, in stressing that a supervisory role does not involve teaching employees "a lesson".
A commissioner has revealed that it was necessary to issue interim stop-bullying orders against two company directors and an employee last week to circumvent acts of violence and prevent other workers being drawn into the "unsavoury" dispute.
The dispute over union powers to enter sites to assist HSRs appears to be far from over, with a safety regulator "considering its options" in relation to the full Federal Court's Friday decision on the matter.
A full Federal Court has quashed an earlier ruling that union officials don't need entry permits to enter workplaces to assist elected health and safety representatives.
Two company directors and an employee have been ordered to refrain from making offensive or disparaging statements to each other and to avoid situations that could lead to violence, under interim stop-bullying orders.
A union has failed to prove that an employer's cost-cutting plan to reduce the number of workers required to perform high-risk tasks will make them unsafe, with the Fair Work Commission finding that no safety issues emerged during a trial of the changes.
A worker has been granted permission to sue her employer for her bullying-related psychological disorder, despite numerous stressful events in her personal life contributing to her condition. Meanwhile, an employer has failed to convince a commission that previous investigations showed a worker's anti-bullying application was vexatious.
Construction giant John Holland Pty Ltd has been fined heavily for WHS breaches on Adelaide's South Road Superway construction project for the second time.
In a case that could, according to one law firm, have ramifications for feisty boardrooms, a commission has found that company directors are "workers" protected by anti-bullying laws.
A Fair Work Commission full bench majority has rejected an employer's challenge of a decision ordering it to return an injured worker to his previous role, after confirming he was able to perform the inherent requirements of the position.
