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An employee's perceptions of bullying, and her employer's failure to investigate her complaints, were significant precipitating factors in her death, a coronial inquest has found.

Accepting The Good Guys had bullying complaints procedures that weren't properly implemented by its managerial staff, Victorian Coroner Audrey Jamieson found this responsibility nonetheless fell to the employer, which had "let everyone down".

The inquest was looking into the death of a sales assistant who had worked for The Good Guys Thomastown store since 2009. The coroner found she died by suicide on 2 May 2021.

The employee had sustained a physical injury at work in 2018, the Coroner heard, and in mid-2019 she began complaining to her manager that colleagues and members of the management team had stopped talking to her, failed to provide her with assistance and had made sarcastic comments about her having to undertake light duties...