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.

It was reasonable for an employer to be concerned about an employee's criminal charges and their potential implications for its female workers' safety, but it wasn't fair to dismiss him over them, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A manager held concerns about an employee's performance "well before" he complained about micromanagement, the Federal Circuit Court has accepted, in dismissing an adverse action claim.

An employer has to convert a casual employee to permanent part-time employment, after a landmark ruling on the Federal Government's new 'employee choice' provisions.

Employees aren't just at risk of burnout due to current rates of workplace change; they're also suffering from mental exhaustion, and this makes it impossible to raise performance and productivity, according to an organisational psychologist.

The "shaming and belittling language" an employee used at work was unjustified, regardless of his beliefs about appropriate attire and conduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

The Fair Work Commission has made its first Minimum Standards Order, covering 'employee-like workers'.