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.

The Fair Work Commission has made regulated labour hire arrangement orders for a warehouse where direct and on-hire employees already receive the same pay, and it has rejected a single labour hire worker's 'same pay' claim.

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An employer has lost its appeal against reinstating an employee sacked for inappropriate conduct, after failing to convince a Fair Work Commission full bench that more regard should have been had to his impact on female colleagues.