Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

The Act also protects against bullying of the whistleblower by co-workers, who can be held personally liable alongside the employer. The employer will be liable even if the bullying took place without their knowledge or approval, unless they can show they took all reasonable steps to prevent the behaviour before it happened.

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