The issues of cyber bullying and bullying in schools get a lot of attention, but bullying in the workplace flies under the radar.

A chef who walked off the job after a heated morning in which she allegedly threw a pan and reduced a staff member to tears has failed in her bid to claim more pay.

It's always great to see someone standing up to a bully. That Hastings schoolboy Lucan Battison also won the confrontation with his St John's College principal is the icing on the cake.

When I was growing up, bullying at school was a fact of life, almost a rite of passage. If you complained about it, you were told to toughen up, writes Peter Hughes.

Schools are increasingly putting students under closed-circuit television surveillance to cut bullying.

A retail chain popular with young people has pulled a line of clothing and accessories following calls that they promoted bullying behaviour.

Nasty messages threatening and abusing MasterChef finalists Jaimie Stodler and Bec Stanley were posted on a TVNZ Facebook page and visible to the public this week.

His T-shirt is recognisable in most Rotorua schools but Warren Tumarae wants people to know that underneath there's a fierce passion to stop bullying.

New Zealand internet sensation Jamie Curry and charismatic Kiwi The Mad Butcher are behind two anti-bullying campaigns aimed at teens.

District jcourt udges have warned the Govt against allowing cyber-bullying victims to take their complaints directly to court, saying that they could be flooded by "meritless" cases.

Microsoft is opposing a proposal to allow cyberbullying victims to take complaints to court, saying it would set a different standard for online abuse in New Zealand .

Vodafone has warned the Government that its cyber-bullying laws are a "sledgehammer" that could require it to remove entire websites in response to complaints.

The woman who had an affair with Auckland Mayor Len Brown has spoken in support of cyber-bullying laws and that she was being stalked on social media.

Never has the downside of social media been more apparent than over the past week, after TV presenter Charlotte Dawson was found dead in her apartment.

Soon after I started on Newstalk ZB many years ago, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash. There was an outpouring of grief; distraught callers talked of nothing else for days, writes Kerre McIvor.

Injured Vodafone Warriors players swapped rugby league for acting yesterday as they delivered an anti-bullying message.

It will give citizens the ability to challenge bullying in its modern form, empowering people to change the way they treat themselves and each other, writes Mai Chen.

We are developing a world of halfwits, writes Bob Jones. Much worse than cellphones is computer addiction, which is turning many into zombies, living a lonely existence of marriage to a cyberspace world.

The high school several Roast Busters members attended is checking its website.

A 15-year-old girl who says she was a victim of the Roast Busters group made a complaint to police two years ago, contradicting the official line that they could not prosecute members of the gang because no one had complained.

Radio hosts Willie Jackson and John Tamihere have been accused of "victim-blaming'' over their questioning of a young woman who is friends with a Roast Busters group victim.

Another vigilante group has sprung up on Facebook promising $4000 for footage of "Roast Busters" members "getting hidings."

More than a million young people in Britain are subjected to extreme online bullying every day, according to the biggest survey of internet abuse.

A young Kiwi woman filmed being bullied and humiliated by two former boyfriends is distraught after the nasty video went viral.

Hamilton City Council insists it doesn't have a bullying problem - but former staff say that appears to be the case only because the problem is easy to hide.

Social networker to beef up measures to prevent harassment after five teens die following cyber bullying.