Penny Brooke, Author at Q Workplace Solutions

Penny Brooke

Penny Brooke has extensive experience as an employment and industrial relations lawyer working in both private practice and in-house roles. She has spent more than a decade assisting public, private and not-for-profit employers navigate Australia’s complex employment law system. Penny has advised employers in sectors such as resources, education, manufacturing, agribusiness, technology, healthcare and professional services, on a wide range of employment law issues, including employee misconduct, performance management, unfair dismissals, enterprise bargaining and industrial action, as well as managing litigation in the Fair Work Commission and in State and Federal courts. Connect with Penny on LinkedIn.LinkedIn.

Case review | The value of contemporaneous reports – tipping the scales in a ‘he said/she said’ case

Case Reviews, Complaint Types / By Penny Brooke

Applications for orders to stop bullying by Banfield and Stolz [2026] FWC 717. This Fair Work Commission case confirms that confrontational or condescending communication will not always constitute workplace bullying within the meaning of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth).

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