03 October 2025
Don’t let Performance Issues ‘slide’ in fear of a bullying claim
FWC recently in Mrs Seema Kurup [2025] FWC 921 found that a manager did not bully an employee by providing her a lower a...
19 September 2025
Employers don’t have to put up with toxic bullying claims
FWC (Applicant (AB2025/40) [2025] FWC 2459 (22 August 2025)) recently dismissed a worker’s "absurd" and "baseless" claim...
20 August 2025
Employers need to understand the causes of Workplace Incivility to really address it
Incivility in the workplace, such as eye-rolling and sarcastic remarks, might seem a ‘one off’ or ‘not worth making a fu...
04 June 2025
When Tough Turns Toxic: Recognising the Line Between Management and Bullying
Bullying is one of the most overused and misunderstood terms in employment law. Employers and their managers regularly...
19 February 2025
When does unreasonable behaviour cross the line into bullying?
The FWC (Application by Wong [2024] FWC 2856 (15 October 2024) has dismissed an employee’s bullying claim against their ...
12 July 2024
FWC says "Interrogative" online messages weren't bullying
FWC (click here) recently refused to grant stop-bullying orders against a manager who allegedly bullied a worker for abo...
28 May 2024
Unnecessarily aggressive management action will almost certainly result in legal claims
The Federal Court recently (Dorsch v HEAD Oceania Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 162) held that a critical and insensitive manager w...
14 May 2024
Tick and flick anti-harassment practices are damaging your workplace health!
A recent WA government study into the mining sector found burnout, bullying and sexual harassment have remained high des...
03 May 2024
Managing performance isn’t bullying . . . Provided it is reasonable
A recent FWC case (Application by Josh Whiteford [2024] FWC 552) has once again endorsed the position that managers carr...
07 February 2024
Bully or Exasperated Manager acting reasonably?
The FWC (Momirovski, Douglas, Serafini, Naumcevski and Egan [2023] FWC 3299) has recently refused to make stop bullying ...
21 December 2023
Bullying back in the spotlight!
Bullying has tended to have taken a bit of a ‘back seat’ following all the recent publicity around the Respect@Work chan...
06 December 2023
Will your Christmas function be Psychosocially safe this year?
Christmas is a great time of year but unfortunately, work functions can be fertile ground for incidents that lead to not...
28 June 2022
The High Court confirms employer's positive duty to keep employees safe from work-related psychiatric injuries
The High Court recently handed down its decision in Kozarov v Victoria [2022] HCA 12, in which it made clear that employ...
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