Following his "unquestionably harsh" constructive dismissal, an employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that his "complex and severe psychiatric condition", and his loss of credentials due to a recent criminal conviction, shouldn't rule out resignation as a remedy.
The Fair Work Commission has expressed a provisional view that a casual should be converted to permanent part-time employment, finding the employer was essentially unable not to offer him work.
When managers take a disciplinary approach to the first signs of poor performance, they set an unnecessarily adversarial tone that can lead to "all sorts of messes", an HR consultant warns.
The Federal Government intends to ban not only non-competes, but also terms that prohibit co-worker solicitation, and the use of "cascading clauses" in post-employment restraints, draft legislation shows.
An investigation isn't always the best response to a workplace complaint or issue, and sometimes it will make the matter worse, a conflict specialist says.
An employer must reinstate an employee it accused of time theft and safety breaches, after the FWC found his allegedly serious misconduct either didn't occur, or was a "one-off record keeping breach".
The $170k in damages awarded to an employee who suffered "nightmare" conduct from her manager serves as a lesson to all employers to identify and take measures against common risk patterns, according to a workplace 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.
