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Bullying charges levied at Australian partners
Bullying is rife at Australian law firms with one in three partners under fire.
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Australian law firms are engulfed in a ‘pandemic’ of bullying with partners particularly prone to bullying junior staff, according to recent research.
In the report in Lawyers Weekly, which carried out the poll of 500 lawyers, partners were accused by one in three of bullying younger employees whilst 29 per cent said bullying was a problem throughout the firm.
On the up side, 28 per cent said they had never come across bullying at their law firm whilst 10 per cent praised management for moving quickly to stop bullying when it happened.
No surprise
Workplace relations lawyer and managing partner of People + Culture Strategies told Lawyers Weekly he was not surprised by the findings and said that the issue of bullying is ‘of pandemic proportions in Australia at the moment.’ He added that actual cases of bullying was on decline but that many of the charges were often in fact ‘inappropriate behavior’
