Responding to an application

The person named as an employer or principal in an anti-bullying application must lodge with the Fair Work Commission a response to the application within 7 calendar days after the day on which the person was served with the application.[1]

Link to response form

• Form F73 – Response from an employer/principal to an application for an order to stop bullying

All forms are available on the Forms page of the Commission's website.

Related information

• What is a day?

If a person named in an anti-bullying application as allegedly engaging in bullying behaviour wants to lodge a response to the application, the person must lodge the response with the Commission within 7 calendar days after the day on which the person was served with the application.[2]

Link to response form

• Form F74 – Response from a person against whom bullying has been alleged to an application for an order to stop bullying

All forms are available on the Forms page of the Commission's website.

A response to an application for an order to stop bullying must be served on the other parties to the matter and their legal or other representatives.

The other parties are:

• the worker who has made the application (the applicant), and
• each person named in the application as an employer or principal, and
• each person named in the application as allegedly engaging in bullying behaviour.

The response must be served within 7 calendar days after receiving the application for an order to stop bullying.

Concerns

The Commission may issue a direction that requires the employer or principal, or a person named to serve a copy of the response on some but not all of the parties specified above.

If you have any concerns about serving your response (or any document forming part of the response) on any of the other parties please contact the Commission to discuss before lodging or serving the response.