A tribunal has criticised Australia Post for its "witch hunt" of an impressionable worker, whose psychological injury stemmed from bored colleagues making jokes at her expense.
An employer's "ad hoc" approach to a sexual harassment allegation and its subsequent investigation caused an employee's psychological injury and were not reasonable actions, a commission has found.
Many employers aren't doing enough to address alcohol and other dr-g (AOD) dependency in the workplace, but some of their wellbeing programs might still be alleviating the problem indirectly, a rehabilitation specialist says.
Most employers have rolled out training and policies to address psychosocial risks, but managers are now feeling the extra burden of driving behavioural change, a conflict specialist warns.
An employee who did not seek psychological treatment for a workplace sexual assault until more than two years after the incident has lost her workers' compensation claim.
It was "incumbent" on an employer to investigate allegations an employee had been spreading rumours at work, but its process was "most inappropriate", and caused a psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
Regularly questioning an employee about why he wasn't completing his assigned tasks amounted to bullying and harassment, and caused his psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
An employee has won compensation for a psychological injury he suffered after a colleague, with whom he'd been embroiled in conflict for years, was promoted and threatened to "go after" him.
An employer has defended sacking an absent employee after an independent medical assessment found "malignant resentment" prevented her from ever being fit to return.
"Ongoing" performance monitoring, along with a team leader's management style and a heavy workload, caused an employee's psychological injury, a commission has ruled in rejecting an employer's 'reasonable action' defence.
