Bullying, harassment and discrimination Your organisation has a work health and safety responsibility to ensure not only the physical health of your volunteer workers but also their mental health. This includes doing what you can to ensure they are not exposed to workplace bullying, harassment and discrimination. The responsibility to prevent workplace bullying, harassment and […]

The Gillard Government will provide $4 million to develop new online toolkits to help parents, teachers, those training to be teachers, and students deal with school bullying, School Education Minister Peter Garrett said today. Mr Garrett made the announcement during the first ever national anti-bullying forum at Parliament House today, which brought together education experts, […]

WORKPLACE bullying is completely unacceptable and victims should not be afraid to ask for help, Workplace Relations Minister David O’Byrne said yesterday. He said the Government took the problem of bullying extremely seriously and urged workers and employers to tackle it together. Mr O’Byrne’s comments came after a Federal Government inquiry in Hobart on Thursday […]

Unions NSW is pressing for an expansion of listed risk factors for workplace bullying to include “work overload, systems changes, exposure to violence and fatigue and bad safety practice”. The peak trade union body is seeking mandatory reporting of psychological injuries and funding for a national bullying helpline. In a submission for the federal inquiry […]

THE absence of a single, nationally accepted definition of what constitutes workplace bullying makes policing and prosecuting it extremely difficult, a federal inquiry will be told when its Melbourne hearings start tomorrow. The federal government launched the inquiry into bullying last month and has received hundreds of submissions from individuals who say they have been […]

PARIS: The former chief executive of France Telecom is being investigated for workplace bullying after a spate of suicides at the phone company and its subsidiary Orange, in what could become a landmark criminal trial. Didier Lombard stepped down as head of the company in 2010 amid criticism of his handling of the suicide crisis; […]

The LIV will give evidence to a House of Representatives committee looking into workplace bullying next Wednesday, 11 July. The LIV is concerned that current State based legislation is inadequate in addressing this issue. We will call for a nationally recognised legislative definition of bullying as well as access to a quick, cost effective civil […]

Tempers have flared in budget estimates where the ACT Government has been grilled about workplace bullying at the Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT). In April, WorkSafe ACT released a scathing report about how CIT was handling workplace bullying. It found CIT’s policies were failing to protect workers, and some of the alleged perpetrators were senior […]