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ARTICLE · 17 JUNE 2020

What is workplace bullying in Australia?

A contemporary case is used to explain & discuss the issue of workplace bullying, duty of care & influencing witnesses.

AustraliaEmployment and HR

Controversial Sydney radio announcer Ray Haydley is being sued over allegations of workplace bullying and harassment.

The lawsuit is being brought by his former programme producer, Chris Bowen, who says he suffered years of abuse at the hands of Mr Hadley, who he says referred to his girlfriend a 'curry muncher'.

In a preliminary hearing in Sydney District Court last week, the judge heard evidence that not only did Mr Hadley make the racial slur, he bullied, harassed and intimidated Mr Bowen on more than 1,000 occasions spanning over a decade, including calling him a "fucking poof" a "fucking spastic" and a "poor simpleton".

Mr Bowen alleges that the systemic bullying was an intentional infliction of mental harm which led to psychiatric injury.

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