Absenteeism (227 items)

It was "premature" to sack an employee for failing to attend work, when just days earlier he was corresponding with the employer about his return, the Fair Work Commission has found.

It wasn't unreasonable or unjust to find a long-serving employee's "sheer number of absences" weighed in favour of his dismissal being valid, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.

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When social media posts caused an employer to doubt the validity of an employee's personal leave, it was entitled to seek further information, a commission has ruled in discrimination proceedings.

Failing to give an employee even a "brief opportunity" to provide evidence of her current and future fitness for work made her dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

It was fair to sack an employee for misusing his personal leave entitlement, the Fair Work Commission has found, in giving no weight to the medical certificate he obtained through an online service.

An employee's attempts to delay a final decision about her dismissal by refusing to sign medical authorisations "resulted in the opposite of its desired effect", the Fair Work Commission has found in unfair dismissal proceedings.

Managing absent employees has become even more challenging with the rise of online medical certificates, a workplace lawyer says.

A Fair Work Commission member was wrong to dismiss a stop-bullying application based on the assumption that an employee who was absent and unfit for duties faced no continuing risk of bullying, a full bench has ruled.

In upholding an employee's appeal, a full bench of the Fair Work Commission has declined to determine whether someone can be considered "at work" and at risk of bullying while they're unfit for duties.