Requested by: NZ Herald | Response provided: 20/09/2019
Category: Disciplinary Action,Workforce Development

I write in response to your Official Information Act request, dated 23 August 2019. You requested the following information related to workplace bullying, and our responses to that:

  1. The total number of complaints relating to alleged staff bullying, harassment or inappropriate behaviour reported, with a breakdown from each department, each year for the last five years.
  2. The total number of complaints relating to staff alleged staff bullying, harassment or inappropriate behaviour formally investigated, with a breakdown from each department, each year for the last five years.
  3. The total number of staff disciplined following a complaint relating to alleged staff bullying, harassment or inappropriate behaviour each year, for the last five years.
  4. The total number of staff dismissed or whose employment ended (such as a resignation or nonrenewal of contract), following a complaint relating to alleged staff bullying, harassment or inappropriate behaviour each year, for the last five years.
  5. The total cost of legal fees to investigate alleged staff bullying, harassment or inappropriate behaviour complaints each year for the last five years.
  6. Copies of any legal advice given to the DHB relating to alleged staff bullying, harassment or inappropriate behaviour in the last five years.
    • Please note I am meaning broadly, rather than a specific case.
  7. The total number of staff employed at the DHB, with a breakdown on the number of staff at each department, each year for the last five years.
  8. Copies of any policy, regulation, protocol relating to alleged staff bullying, harassment or inappropriate behaviour and reporting of such incidents.

Our responses are attached

 

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