A commissioner who holds 200 Woolworths shares has refused to recuse herself from an anti-bullying case involving the supermarket giant, because the amount of shares she owns is insignificant.
The FWC has rejected a bullying complaint after finding the Department of Finance put the worker on a three-day week, while he recovered from a previous "toxic" job, so he could spend the other two days "trying to resolve his workplace grievances".
A worker who made unfounded bullying complaints against 11 alleged perpetrators, including a senior HR manager, two HR team members, a safety specialist and an in-house lawyer has been castigated by the FWC for putting his colleagues through an "ordeal" and advised to refrain from making any further "baseless" complaints.
In a decision illustrating the challenges of managing high-performing employees, a member of Woolworths' e-commerce team has failed to persuade the FWC that her manager and supervisor bullied her during a tense period sparked by receiving a lower annual rating than usual.
An aged care employer's investigation into allegations made against a worker amounted to reasonable management action, rather than inconsistent treatment because the worker is transgender, a fact the employer only became aware of during proceedings.
After rebuffing a recusal bid, the FWC has dismissed a worker's anti-bullying claim against his migration agent, who has made it very clear she wants nothing more to do with him.
A FWC member has refused to recuse herself, after a worker likened her advice to an alleged bully during a conference to helping a s-xual assault perpetrator escape justice.
The FWC has refused to separate an NBN engineer involved in a dispute over allegedly unpaid hours from a manager held to have bullied him, instead ordering mediation after finding his own behaviour and "pedantic" approach is contributing to his problems.
In a shot in the arm for a paramedic transferred 350km away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague, a full bench has ruled that bullying falls within a "spectrum of seriousness" and ordered the redetermination of whether he engaged in serious misconduct.
Workers should not refuse to resolve bullying at a workplace level just because they have an anti-bullying case underway, the FWC has found in dismissing a chief executive's claim against her husband during divorce proceedings, finding only a single instance of unreasonable conduct.
