An employee's stop-bullying claim has revealed a workplace in which gossip contributed to a "cyclone of drama" and fostered dysfunctional relationships, but she was part of the problem, a commission has found.
An employee who resigned because of a manager's "toxic" communication style has failed to prove this was her only option, despite the Fair Work Commission agreeing that it can be "very hard to tell a bully that they are a bully".
An employee who claimed he was screamed at and bullied by managers has lost his constructive dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission ruling that his resignation was an "overreaction" to the circumstances.
An employer's response to workplace bullying "fell well short of adequate", but it gave an employee several reasonable alternatives to resignation, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer's enquiry into a worker's serious privacy breach caused her psychological injury, but it was a "necessary first step" in a reasonable disciplinary process, a commission has ruled.
The Federal Circuit Court has criticised an HR manager's decision to sack an employee rather than deal with the "dilemma" of her bullying allegations, and fined him $7.6k.
An employee may have been "justifiably irate" by managers' alleged bullying behaviour towards her, but their actions were "not so significant" that they forced her to resign, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer must again defend dismissing a worker who said she would "take down" the company, after she won an appeal but then lost a dispute over what form the rehearing should take.
An employee with no imminent prospect of returning to work from medical leave has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission to issue a stop-bullying order.
Criticisms about a director on her employer's Facebook page had no "rational connection" to work and in any case didn't amount to bullying, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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