Workplace Bullying Law.

Workplace bullying is a targeted and harmful behavior towards an employee when he/she is at work. It can be mocking, spiteful, intimidating, or even downright offensive. Workplace bullying can target one person or a few persons in general.

Examples of workplace bullying

  • Practical jokes targeting the person
  • Being misled regarding work duties, such as vague directions and improper deadlines
  • Continuous denial of requests for time off without reason
  • Verbal abuse, humiliation, and threats
  • Too much monitoring of performance
  • Unjust and harsh criticism

A victim of workplace bullying can take recourse to workplace discrimination lawyers or workplace harassment lawyers in Sydney if they feel that they are being preyed upon.

Different types of bullying

  • Verbal: This includes humiliation, mockery, jokes, salacious gossip, or other kinds of spoken abuse.
  • Intimidation: This could include invasion of privacy, threats, social exclusion, as well as spying.
  • Work performance-related: This includes undeserved blame, sabotage of work, interference in work, or unjustly taking the credit for ideas.
  • Retaliatory: When the victim talks about the bullying, it could further lead to accusations that they are lying, exclusion, refusal of promotions, or other kinds of retaliation.
  • Institutional: This happens when the workplace allows, encourages, or accepts when a bullying incident takes place and actively encourages it. 

Bullying and harassment differ in the fact that harassment at the workplace is a one-off incident while bullying is repeated time and again. Employment solicitors in Sydney can come to your help and lodge a case under the workplace bullying law, provided that you have the fortitude to stand up to your employers.

Workplace bullying is a despicable thing, unjustly pitting an unfortunate worker against the might of the workplace and this could happen to just about anyone who works in an office, plant, or factory. It does not distinguish between sexes and is a confidence-sapping and derogatory chain of events where the employee is targeted and vilified without any fault or reason. Legal action against the erring employees is the best recourse and we encourage victims of workplace bullying to step forward to get justice.