When Krystal started a new job at a national recruitment agency, she thought she was moving up the career ladder, but seven months later she could hardly sleep and was having panic attacks on her way to work.
The mother-of-two went from being confident and capable, to withdrawing socially and agonising over every email, conversation and task she performed at work.
Krystal said she raised the issue with the company's HR department, but when it was brushed aside, she did not know what to do.New data obtained from Safe Work Australia has revealed the number of serious workplace injuries related to bullying and harassment has nearly doubled in Australia over the past decade.
"It can range from the very overt finger pointing, shouting, name-calling, denigration, to the much more covert ostracization, isolation, being excluded from meetings, being excluded from events."Krystal said she struggled to gather evidence of the bullying she experienced. Keeping a diary of incidents, printing out emails and keeping a copy of your organisation's workplace bullying and harassment policies can help build a legal case against a workplace bully."It is much harder for the employer to say 'oh we didn't know, there was nothing we could do' if there is clear evidence that it was told about what was going on and failed to take action," he said.
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