In fact, given the increased legal and reputational exposure employers now face when confronted
with allegations of bullying and harassment, it's becoming increasingly common and advantageous to retain external legal counsel to conduct such investigations in order to build that solid foundation for employers.
As first published in WorkPlace Info 21st November 2013 (www.workplaceinfo.com.au) Australia's national workplace relations tribunal, the Fair Work Commission, will have a new set of powers commencing from 1 January 2014 to deal
with allegations of bullying in the workplace.
Not exact matches
The competition regulator has vowed to push ahead
with its twin investigations into the power
of the supermarket chains over
allegations of bullying suppliers and the misuse
of petrol shopper dockets, despite the release on Monday
of a draft voluntary code
of conduct agreed to by the retailers and the nation's grocery and food suppliers.
But in November she was suspended from her post as chairman
of Conservative Future as
allegations of bullying in party's youth wing emerged, as well as reports
of an affair
with Tory deputy chairman Robert Halfon.
Judge Alan Simon, who presided over the Spring Valley Village Court and the Ramapo Town Court in Rockland County, was found by a judicial oversight commission to have a history
of bullying and verbally abusing court staffers, and has been suspended
with pay pending a review
of the
allegations against him.
Forty - seven years after The Washington Post published the so - called Pentagon Papers, there is another paranoid
bully in the White House, press freedom is under real threat and the US capital is awash
with lies, slander and
allegations of «fake news».
This is being set up in certain instances,
with the support
of staff, parents and students, to help to address issues such as
bullying and to readily resolve
allegations made by pupils against teachers in an informed way.
The parents
of a Bennion Junior High student, who killed himself in front
of his peers in 2012 amid
allegations of bullying, reached a settlement Monday
with the Granite School District that the family hopes will result in improved school practices.
Perhaps it was unintentional, but your original post seemed to favour the authors from the very first line when you say «author
bullying and harassment», assuming that the
allegations are correct (in most cases, they're not) and also ignoring the
bullying of reviewers by authors who were displeased
with a negative review.
That said, both Smith and Moorhead are impressed by chief exec Des Hudson who arrived at Chancery Lane in 2006 to knock some shape into what was seen to be an organisation lurching from crisis to crisis — for example, a bruising encounter
with the then Lord Irvine over its campaign against the Access to Justice Bill («irresponsible scaremongering») and the bitter recriminations following the departure
of Kamlesh Bahl, the first Asian woman to become vice-president, who resigned following
bullying allegations.