Fear and Loathing in the Office of Workplace Relations

Dear, dear. Who would have thought this mild mannered looking chap, who's made the Great Leap Forward in industrial relations reform sound about as much fun as stepping in a puddle of warm vomit, could preside over such taskmasters?
The Australian reports:

The minister in charge of John Howard's workplace reforms has been drawn into allegations of bullying in his own office with the resignation of a female adviser. Felicity Dargan left her position as a policy adviser to Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews after claiming that up to four office staff bullied her for more than a year. It's understood she was deeply upset by remarks relating to her work, made to her by office colleagues. After raising the bullying issue with Andrews, Dargan spent the last month of her employment at home on full pay working on a "special project", at the conclusion of which she left and took up a job as chief-of-staff to new Family First Party senator Steven Fielding. A happy ending?

Particularly interesting, given the fact that Fielding has stated his strong opposition to many elements of the IR reforms, particularly the possibility that cash-strapped families could be coerced ... er, could `negotiate' giving up 2 weeks' leave.