By Sharon Ryan, The Vancouver Sun
Dear Sharon: For two years, I have been the victim of workplace bullying. My boss passes me up for promotions and ostracizes me from social gatherings. Now he and his minions joke about how I must be feeling the pinch by now. I’m sure they want me to leave but [...]

By Evelyn Field, The Age
Magistrate Peter Lauritsen’s ruling on the culpability of those responsible for the subtle and sadistic workplace bullying that led to Brodie Panlock’s death in 2006 may reduce the acceptance of such behaviour in the workplace.
This is only a small indication of justice and the manner in which victims are further abused [...]

By Howard Levitt, The Vancouver Sun
Defining a “bully” is easy for dictionaries. Otherwise, it is a matter of perspective. What is the difference between being a bully and having an assertive management style? Are the courts and tribunals the best situated to decide?
Whatever the definition, how many people consider having a tough boss to be [...]

By Penny Stevens, The Sydney Morning Herald
A court decision yesterday to issue $335,000 in fines arising from workplace behaviour that resulted in a waitress committing suicide highlights the significant risks associated with bullying and harassment in the workplace.
The owner of Cafe Vamp in Hawthorn was one of four workers to plead guilty to failing to [...]

from The Southland Times
From the playground to the workplace, bullying is something that, unfortunately, some people never manage to outgrow, writes Mary-Jane Thomas in this week’s Work to Rule.
But proof for employees that they are the victims of bullying behaviour can be much harder than pointing to a black eye and a missing tooth.
Being legally [...]

from The Courier Mail
The parents of a waitress who killed herself after being subjected to relentless workplace bullying says the law should be changed to allow courts to jail tormenters.
Three workmates, and the owner of Cafe Vamp in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, were convicted and fined a total of $335,000 following the death [...]

By Steven Morris, Guardian.co.uk
It sounds like a low-budget thriller. A vicar and his wife are hurriedly retrieving belongings from an old rectory when a face appears at a window. Other figures are spotted outside and a sinister whirring noise, which could be a drill, is heard.
Actually, it was a bizarre twist in a long-running battle [...]

By David Williamson, WalesOnline.co.uk
Charities can be among the toughest places to work in modern Britain, according to major new Welsh research into workplace intimidation.
The scale of inequality and bullying at work will be laid bare later this month at a major conference staged by the Bevan Foundation.
The squeeze on public spending is predicted to increase [...]

By Afua Hirsch, guardian.co.uk
The recession has seen a big increase in bullying at work, the Guardian has learned. One in 10 employees experience workplace bullying and harassment, according to the conciliation service Acas, while a survey by the union Unison reports that more than one-third of workers said they were bullied in the past six [...]