“Bullying and harassment: How safe are public sector workers?” in New Zealand.

“Bullying and harassment: How safe are public sector workers?” are today’s headlines.

Short answer – they’re NOT SAFE. More on employment advocate, Allan Halse's big win at the Wellington Employment Court, in the Kim Ashby versus NIWA case below.

Sexual harassment and workplace bullying is NOT a “personality clash and a communication problem”.

Stuff investigative journalist and top #metooadvocate Alison Mau is a champion whom the anti sexual harassment/workplace bullying movement adore. Read her full article and extracts below:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/.../bullying-and-harassment-how...

“There's one sentence in the decision that could be easily missed, but it raises big questions about whether senior managers in the public sector understand the effects of bullying and harassment, and how they respond.

It says NIWA Vessels Managing Director Greg Foothead "gave evidence that he could not justify a (shift) swap based on a personality clash and a communication problem".

I tried to interview Greg Foothead this week, and for a while it looked like that might happen. In the end NIWA refused, saying it "does not comment on individual personnel issues"”