A worker has failed to prove she was bullied by a manager who didn't respond to her lengthy "feedback" email, cancelled her shifts, and then stopped offering her more work.
An "adversarial" employee has won stop-bullying orders, while also being subject to orders herself, with the Fair Work Commission finding she was marginalised and ignored after returning from sick leave.
An employer has failed to prove that an injured employee's alleged incapacity for work was caused by his pre-existing mixed personality disorder, rather than "persistent and racist" workplace bullying.
Low levels of bullying and harassment reporting in NSW parliamentary workplaces have "created a vacuum" in which unawareness and denial abound, a new report says.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a senior manager's stop-bullying claim after finding he deliberately forestalled proceedings to preserve his employment, and noting it had "reservations" about whether he was capable of being bullied by an "elderly" director.
Having one member of a small team repeatedly fail to meet project timelines was "a situation that any business would need to address", the Fair Work Commission has noted in rejecting an employee's stop-bullying claim.
An employer has been ordered to pay a manager more than $2.25 million in compensation, penalties and costs after its CEO "effectively destroyed" her life.
Minor workplace grievances are increasingly building to an "explosion" point because employees aren't equipped to tackle them early, and hybrid working is pouring fuel on this fire, a conflict expert says.
Workplace disagreements and behaviours caused an employee "some stress", but they didn't significantly contribute to his psychological ailment, a tribunal has ruled.
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