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Employee who tended to "overreact" and "assume the worst" wasn't bullied
Rejecting an employee's request to work remotely until 2026 and encouraging her to work in a different way was not repeated unreasonable behaviour, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
In her stop-bullying application, the University of Southern Queensland accounting lecturer claimed that in January 2021 she asked her supervisor for permission to work from home for the next five years, due to a "permanent and irreversible" physical disability.
The supervisor acknowledged the employee's health issues but said he couldn't approve remote work for that long; instead, he would approve it until the start of semester one (about a month)...
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