How To Prove Psychological Harassment
How to prove psychological harassment is genuinely difficult, because the case rests on a pattern rather than an event. Four kinds of evidence carry weight.
Contemporaneous notes. Dated at the time, factual, in your own words. Far stronger than an account reconstructed later, and this is what most people fail to keep.
Documents. Emails, messages, rosters, meeting invitations, review ratings. Absence can matter as much as content, such as being left off an invitation list repeatedly.
Witnesses. Colleagues who saw specific incidents. Ask early, while memories are fresh and before people leave.
Comparators. The one people miss. Evidence that others in the same role were treated differently is often what turns a pattern into a case.
None of this requires you to decide whether to complain.
Safe Work Australia covers the duty. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
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