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    The Fair Work Commission in Australia ruled that unfriending a colleague on Facebook could constitute workplace bullying. The ruling came in a case where an employee claimed her colleague bullied her through actions like excluding her from work displays and conversations. While unfriending alone may not be considered bullying, the tribunal found it was part of a pattern of unreasonable behavior that created a hostile work environment for the employee. However, employment lawyers noted the unfriending was only one aspect considered alongside other allegations of belittling and berating behavior over a two-year period.

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    The Fair Work Commission in Australia ruled that unfriending a colleague on Facebook could constitute workplace bullying. The ruling came in a case where an employee claimed her colleague bullied her through actions like excluding her from work displays and conversations. While unfriending alone may not be considered bullying, the tribunal found it was part of a pattern of unreasonable behavior that created a hostile work environment for the employee. However, employment lawyers noted the unfriending was only one aspect considered alongside other allegations of belittling and berating behavior over a two-year period.

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    The Fair Work Commission in Australia ruled that unfriending a colleague on Facebook could constitute workplace bullying. The ruling came in a case where an employee claimed her colleague bullied her through actions like excluding her from work displays and conversations. While unfriending alone may not be considered bullying, the tribunal found it was part of a pattern of unreasonable behavior that created a hostile work environment for the employee. However, employment lawyers noted the unfriending was only one aspect considered alongside other allegations of belittling and berating behavior over a two-year period.

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    Workplace bullying

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    Facebook ruled bullying
    Unfriending an employee ruled as part of 'bullying' behaviour by employee tribunal

    1 Unfriending an employee on Facebook can in incidents of unreasonable behaviour", of which


    some cases be workplace bullying, an Australian unfriending Ms Roberts on Facebook was counted
    tribunal has found. as one. Nine other allegations were upheld by the
    tribunal.
    2 The ruling came after Rachael Roberts, an estate
    agent in Launceston, Tasmania, complained to 7 The deputy president of the commission, Nicole
    Australia's the Fair Work Commission that her Wells, said in her decision that the unfriending
    colleague Lisa Bird was bullying her, leaving her showed "a lack of emotional maturity" on Mrs
    with anxiety and depression. She made 18 Bird's part that had made Ms Roberts unwell.
    allegations of bullying in total.
    8 But employment lawyer Josh Bornstein told ABC
    3 Ms Rachel said that following an argument about news the unfriending incident was found to be
    a sale loss, her properties were no longer workplace bullying in the context of several other
    displayed in the window, photocopies were issues.
    distributed to colleagues but not her, and she was
    9 "What the Fair Work Commission did find is that a
    no longer greeted in the morning.
    pattern of unreasonable behaviour, hostile
    4 When she approached Mr Bird, the head of the behaviour, belittling behaviour over about a
    agency and Mrs Bird's husband, about the issues two-year period, which featured a range of
    his wife reportedly called her into a meeting and different behaviours including berating, excluding
    said she was a "naughty little schoolgirl running to and so on, constituted workplace bullying," he
    the teacher". said.

    5 After this exchange in January 2015, Ms Roberts 10 Under the Fair Work Act, the tribunal can order the
    found that Mrs Bird had unfriended her on employer and employee to hold a meeting about
    Facebook. She was then signed off work by a anti-bullying orders, but cannot impose
    psychologist, Sky News reports. compensation.

    6 In a workplace bullying incident, the Fair Work Adapted from The Independent, 25 September
    Commission must find evidence of "repeated 2015, by Jess Staufenberg
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