It was fair to sack an employee for misusing his personal leave entitlement, the Fair Work Commission has found, in giving no weight to the medical certificate he obtained through an online service.

The best-performing organisations categorise their workforce costs in three key ways, enabling them to avoid reactive cuts and continue investing where it matters most, even during leaner times, an HR strategy expert says.

Employers often don't realise that low job control poses a psychosocial risk in their workplace, unless they specifically ask employees about it, a safety and compliance specialist says.

An employer has to reinstate an employee sacked for misconduct, after the Fair Work Commission found its ultimate decision-maker effectively "rubber stamped the assessment of others".

An employee's request for more working-from-home days was inconsistent with his employer's desire for knowledge sharing and team connection, the Fair Work Commission has accepted, in arbitrating a flexible work dispute.

The words "compliance training" often elicit groans from employees, but by making learning more relevant, gamifying certain aspects, and connecting it to the organisation's values, HR can make it engaging, effective, and even "exciting", a specialist says.

It was unreasonable to keep an employee "in the dark" after concluding serious misconduct allegations weren't substantiated, a tribunal has found in psychological injury proceedings.

A manager whose team members were often crying was fairly sacked for creating a psychosocially unsafe workplace, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The extent to which employees believe their employer supports their wellbeing often depends on how 'wellbeing' is defined, according to a workplace consultant.

In the absence of any complaints to HR, the Federal Circuit Court has rejected that racist and crude comments towards a supervisor were commonplace, and dismissed her discrimination and s-xual harassment claims.