A cook has received almost $68,000 compensation after being sacked for supposedly refusing to attend mediation over her bullying claims – while in the midst of a Zoom meeting with a mediator.
The FWC should only dismiss an anti-bullying application at a preliminary stage if the absence of a future risk is clear, a FWC full bench has found in upholding the appeal of a worker on extended sick leave.
The FWC has declined to issue anti-bullying orders against a body corporate secretary despite observing her communication style was "seen as combative and demeaning" and that she displayed "the characteristics of a narcissist".
The FWC has castigated a union delegate for abusing its anti-bullying processes to "settle personal scores" with managers, branding it "completely inappropriate".
FWC member and former ETU NSW branch secretary Bernie Riordan has thrown out a demand that he recuse himself from an anti-bullying case due to his alleged "connection" with a union leader named as a respondent, saying the tribunal would "grind to a halt" if it acceded to such requests.
A senior FWC member has rebuked an experienced Telstra worker for wasting the tribunal's time on a "spiteful" anti-bullying bid based on "pedantic" complaints about his manager.
The FWC has awarded $15,000 compensation to a couple sacked within hours of each other for allegedly bullying the same manager by invoking a "summoning ritual" involving a pentagram and rubber ducks, and "mocking" her in a workplace chat group.
A senior FWC member has navigated his way around a barrier to issuing interim anti-bullying orders, providing another option to give a Hindu temple's head priest and his employer a chance to restore harmony.
A PSA South Australia industrial officer who claimed the union decided against extending her contract because she complained about a bullying colleague has lost her adverse action claim.
Racing Victoria has failed to persuade the FWC to hold off considering its chief veterinarian's claims that it pressured her to declare horses fit to race, a member noting that while the case had "substantial overlap" with an adverse action matter initiated in the Federal Court, they would move at different paces and address different questions.
