The Fair Work Commission has ruled a remote employee who ignored directives not to work during a shut-down period, then didn't log on for two weeks, was justly sacked.
An employer victimised a complaining employee by preventing her from returning to work after a psych injury, despite her full capacity, a commission has ruled in ordering $36k in damages.
It was not unfair to medically retire an employee who had been on leave for more than two years and whose mental state deteriorated "simply at the thought" of returning to work, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.
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.
