A Philippines-based contract worker has been cleared to pursue a general protections claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding she was an "Australian-based employee".
The Fair Work Commission has refused to reduce a senior employee's $40k redundancy entitlement, finding the role her employer argued was 'other acceptable employment' wasn't in fact vacant at the time.
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An employee's complaints against two colleagues weren't covered by the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions, and his dismissal wasn't unlawful, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
No matter how skilled and experienced a leader is, they can't perform at their best if they don't understand their own biology, a leadership and performance specialist says.
Interactions between a "bad tempered" manager and "difficult" supervisor were "a mutually driven personality clash" rather than bullying, a court has found in rejecting a $6.8 million damages claim, with costs.
The Fair Work Commission's workload pressures are contributing to lower satisfaction scores from parties using its dispute resolution processes, according to its annual report.
Not enough organisations are addressing the fact that when employees are prone to distraction, they tend to work on what's easiest rather than what's most valuable, a performance and productivity authority says.
A commission has rejected that an employer's disciplinary process was reasonable, finding it took the "drastic" step of suspending a manager before adequately investigating the misconduct allegations against him.
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