Re: What to do when I am bullied.

Thank you indeed Mattb for your welcome and very clear and concise reply.

You are right on all counts and from what I’ve gleaned in a short amount of time, there is indeed a lot of ‘very grey area’ as you say. Also these things can take years to play out legally, cost fortunes then get nowhere. Meanwhile the bullying can just go on because the bullies know this better than their victims.

There is no question the bullying is facilitated by and encouraged by both the Executive Committee and the Strata Manager. It is carried out and perpetuated by feral residents, some of whom are previous EC members who know how powerless the victims are. (I am not the only one I have discovered.) While there would be some suggestive paperwork, of course, there is no easily attainable, usable, definitive evidence apart from hearsay and diary entries and such.

BUT… I am still curious about that paragraph on the Strata Manager’s web site, here it is again: ”If you’re on an executive committee and someone reports an incidence of bullying to you it must be taken seriously. Bullying creates a risk for the health and safety of the person or group of people it’s affecting. As a committee member you may also be held personally liable if you are aware of certain behaviour but did nothing to address the issue.”

It is difficult to believe Executive Committee members and Strata Managers do not have some sort of ‘duty of care in this regard’. The term is Owners ‘CORPORATION’, after all. 

I am not rich at all, but sadly maybe a few hundred dollars spent with a lawyer might be worth it. It should not have to come to that!