An employer and its senior leaders didn't bully an executive when they asked her repeatedly to return to the office, and started a performance improvement plan after a client complained about her, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.
An employer constructively dismissed an employee after its HR manager failed to investigate her bullying complaints and instead accused her of misconduct, the Fair Work Commission has found.
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.
An email that an employee characterised as "menacing" was in fact "reasonable and appropriate", and every matter that managers raised with him "ought to have been raised", the FWC has found in rejecting his stop-bullying application.
An employee's bullying allegations were reasonable management actions, the Fair Work Commission has accepted, but it has nonetheless urged an employer to improve its complaints handling process.
When HR and other leaders are addressing interpersonal conflict at work, it's important to be mindful of the "subversive" impact some language has, a specialist says.
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.
An employer had "room to improve" certain communication and processes, but the issues an employee complained about didn't warrant stop-bullying orders, according to the Fair Work Commission.
After its workplace training was described as a "tick and flick" exercise, an employer has been ordered to compensate a worker who engaged in "totally unacceptable" behaviour.
The one-week gap between a senior manager's resignation and starting her new job has undermined her claims that she was either dismissed during her notice period, or forced to quit due to poorly handled bullying complaints.
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