A "wave of uncertainty" is causing hybrid employees not to use their sick leave, but this is driving up toxic presenteeism, a wellbeing specialist says.
It was reasonable for an "empathetic" employer to propose disciplining a worker who failed to improve his poor attendance levels over several years, despite three absence management plans, a commission has found.
An employer did "everything humanly possible" to obtain an employee's vaccination status and was entitled to dismiss her after she repeatedly rebuffed its requests, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A WHS specialist who refused to give her employer documents stored on her laptop because she was on sick leave was "otherwise capable of sending multiple emails", the Fair Work Commission has noted in upholding her dismissal.
A manager who was bullied and intimidated, and then sacked, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness has been awarded $163k in adverse action proceedings.
The Fair Work Commission has praised an employer's two-year process to help a worker return to his pre-injury role, finding it ultimately had a valid reason to dismiss him.
An employee who made "troubling" comments during a performance meeting and then took extended sick leave was fairly sacked after refusing to attend an IME, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A mentally unwell employee has failed to prove her employer compromised her ability to return to work after she suffered a psychological injury, and that she was therefore unfairly dismissed.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
