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 […]

Bully, a powerful new documentary focusing on the bullying epidemic affecting children, is so confronting that it was initially given an R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America. They argued that the language used in the film – actual footage shoot within the US school system – was unsuitable for minors despite the […]

VICTIMS of bullying should be able to make parents of their tormenters pay for their pain, says a former chief judge of Australia’s Family Court. And schools should be made legally responsible for student bullying that takes place off campus and outside school hours, Alastair Nicholson says. Mr Nicholson, one of Australia’s most respected legal […]

DAVID MARK: A former Chief Justice of the Family Court says schools and parents should be held legally responsible for bullying by students. Alastair Nicholson says the current laws don’t work, and a national approach is needed to clarify the law around bullying in schools. He spoke to our reporter Liz Hobday at a conference […]

The ACT Greens say a survey has revealed widespread bullying allegations in the public and private sector, and under-reporting by victims. 135 workers in the private and public sector completed the online survey. 75 per cent overall said they had been bullied, and the majority within the last twelve months. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-17/workplace-bullying-still-real-problem/4016898?section=act

One of Canberra’s biggest security firms, which guards dozens of federal and ACT government buildings, is facing multiple actions by two workplace authorities over allegations of widespread exploitation, underpayments and bullying. Sydney-based SNP Security, which holds about $28 million in security contracts with Commonwealth agencies, is facing complaints to the Fair Work Ombudsman and WorkSafe […]