An employer has successfully defended an unfair dismissal claim despite its "woeful" harassment investigation, with the Fair Work Commission finding its procedural flaws were outweighed by the gravity of the employee's conduct.
As employers start to scrutinise their AI investments more closely, HR teams can help to boost ROI in three key ways, a strategic workplace advisor says.
If employers want their remote workers to feel valued and connected, leaders must deliberately create opportunities for virtual social interactions, a leadership and communications specialist says.
Recent constructive dismissal appeals highlight the risks involved in accepting a resignation from an employee who is experiencing mental health issues. Watch this Q&A to understand the rulings' implications for all employers.
After rejecting multiple settlement offers and pursuing seven claims despite being on notice of their flaws, an employee has to pay a portion of her employer's "considerable" legal costs.
It was unreasonable to recharacterise an incident after an investigation found an employee's conduct wasn't malicious or intentional, the Fair Work Commission has found in unfair dismissal proceedings.
The Fair Work Commission has criticised an employer's "awkward attempts" to retrospectively justify its hasty exit of a general manager, who was presumed to have engaged in fraudulent conduct.
There was no reason to grant an employer's appeal against a finding that it sacked an employee who had already resigned, a full bench of the Fair Work Commission has found. But in the same decision, it has more than doubled the amount of compensation payable for the unfair dismissal.
An employer didn't discriminate against an employee on the basis of his race when it told him he had to adhere to his roster, while simultaneously approving a co-worker's amendment request, a tribunal has found.
The Fair Work Commission's landmark casual conversion ruling has implications for all organisations that engage casual labour, and its circumstances would likely have "tripped up" many employers, according to a lawyer.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
Recent constructive dismissal claims highlight the risks involved in accepting a resignation from an employee who is experiencing mental health issues. Watch this Q&A to understand the rulings' implications for all employers.
