[2020] NZEmpC 46 JCE v The Department of Corrections [pdf, 321 KB]
...coping techniques to enable her to remain in gainful employment the award for non-economic loss would have been higher.14 [50] In Gilbert, the Court awarded $75,000 for humiliation, anxiety and distress and that was not disturbed in the subsequent appeal. In that case the employee had been a probation officer exposed to unnecessary and avoidable workplace stress over many years, arising from work overload, management failure and office and resource deficiencies.15 He had suffered...