An HR manager and other superiors caused an employee's psychological injury when they either ignored or failed to properly investigate her bullying and harassment complaints, a commission has ruled.
An employer has failed to prove that it did not bully or intimidate an employee into signing a performance management plan, with a commission upholding his psychological injury claim.
An employer is liable for a long-serving employee's psychological injury, after its poor communication about a restructure meant she found out about her demotion by chance.
An employee who was dismissed for being "unable to cope with the unexceptional day-to-day requirements and stressors of her role" has lost her bid for reinstatement.
Training leaders to better support the mental health of their teams is one of the most effective steps an organisation can take to mitigate psychosocial risk, a researcher says.
An employer that failed to "advocate" for an employee when its client requested he be stood down during a serious misconduct investigation has been ordered to pay him compensation for a psychological injury.
An employer couldn't have reasonably foreseen an employee's "extraordinary" psychiatric response to his wrongful dismissal, a court has ruled in overturning his $1.44m damages award.
An employee who experienced "serious and repeated" sexual harassment at work has won an extra $129k in damages, after a court found the original $10k awarded was "inadequate in the extreme".
Employers' new obligations to proactively eliminate s-xual harassment and prevent psychosocial harm at work are set to have an impact on HR teams that shouldn't be underestimated, a workplace lawyer says.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
