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After an employer gave undertakings to keep an employee separate from his alleged bullies, and in circumstances where he seemed unlikely to return to work anyway, it wasn't wrong for the Fair Work Commission to dismiss his stop-bullying application, a full bench has ruled.

The IDP Education invigilator had applied to the Commission for stop-bullying orders, naming the employer and six co-workers as respondents.

He complained about a series of incidents at the employer's Melbourne test centre starting in November 2023, which he said created a "hostile working environment", and in the months that followed he submitted a certificate of capacity which placed limits on his interactions with certain staff...