The FWC has refused to issue anti-bullying orders against a high-profile Adelaide restaurant because it implemented positive measures to tackle unreasonable behaviour.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a resident caretaker of a luxury resort, even though he is manager, is a "worker" eligible to pursue an anti-bullying claim.
The chief executive and a manager of a chamber of commerce and industry who withdrew bullying and harassment complaints once they no longer had contact with the alleged perpetrators did not act vexatiously or without reasonable cause in seeking anti-bullying orders, the FWC has found.
Three DP World stevedoring employees exposed to prolonged bullying by workmates and fellow MUA members face a real risk of the conduct continuing on their return to work because a "system of authority and control" remains in place at a Melbourne container terminal "which stands apart from" the company.
The Fair Work Commission has found it has the power to hear an anti-bullying application from a long-serving employee of a not-for-profit organisation, after ruling it is a trading corporation.
The FWC is considering whether it needs to issue an anti-bullying order against an Adelaide restaurant, after it took "positive steps" to improve its culture and practices.
A real estate agency's last-minute implementation of a new anti-bullying policy wasn't enough to stop the FWC from ordering it to cease bullying a property consultant that its sales administrator deleted as a Facebook friend after likening her to a "naughty little schoolgirl running to the teacher".
The FWC has refused to issue a stop bullying order to a Fremantle retail employee despite claims she received death threats from a cleaner at the premises, and another stall owner started rumours and stared at her.
The FWC has told an employee who claimed he was bullied following a single altercation that the general protections regime may offer better redress than a stop-order.