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An employee's over-dramatisation of a childcare need as a "family emergency" indicated he had a very limited coping mechanism, the Fair Work Commission has observed in declining to make stop-bullying orders.

The employee alleged he had been bullied on multiple occasions since joining concrete contracting company Kraftur in 2022, and his application specifically named three individuals: the company's MD; and two site leaders.

In the first alleged incident, a site leader called the employee a "slippery c-nt", and later introduced him to other site supervisors using this term...