Harassment and Bullying
Harassment is unwelcome conduct that humiliates, offends or intimidates people. Such conduct is neither appropriate nor relevant to work and includes words as well as acts, refraining from acting, posting images also can be in the form of workplace attitudes and atmosphere. The effect is to make a person feel insulted, offended, intimidated and unable to work effectively or perhaps safely.
Bullying is a form of workplace such as unfair and excessive criticism, publicly insults, ignoring victim's views, constantly changing rules, repeatedly setting unrealistic work targets and culturally insensitivity
Employers may be liable for the actions of employees if reasonable actions to prevent bullying or harassment or respond to any complaint are not in place such as acting quickly on bullying or harassment complaints and implementing policies and procedures and training programs for staff.
The most effective way to prevent bullying and harassment is for you tell all employees that workplace bullying is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. This is usually done with workplace policies and manuals.
Call one of our Commercial Lawyers for free initial telephone advice on your circumstances on (02) 9525 8688.
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