‘DJs case has implications for corporate Australia’, Leon Gettler, The Age, 17/8/10

"A light has been shone on the role of boards as bystanders.

THE debate about whether Kristy Fraser-Kirk is overreaching by seeking $37 million in punitive damages from David Jones overshadows a more important issue. The lawsuit identifies a little-discussed area that lies at the heart of sexual harassment and bullying: the role of the bystander. In most analyses of harassing situations, bystanders are considered to be blamelessly passive. Nothing could be further from the truth..."

 

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Leon Gettler also writes for AHRI's HR Monthly magazine.

 

 

 

 

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