After allegedly rushing a CEO's sacking to deny him the opportunity to claim unfair dismissal, an employer has been ordered to reinstate him until his adverse action claim can be determined.
When a CEO asked an employee if she had another job to go to and then gave her an "opportunity to resign" before a negative performance review, she had no option but to quit, the Fair Work Commission found.
An employer unintentionally dismissed an employee when it treated his ambiguous comments as a resignation and "unilaterally" declared he was no longer employed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee who maintained he was "not in a mental state to text anyone" while absent for more than two months has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he didn't abandon his employment.
An employee wasn't forced to resign by alleged discrimination, but rather she quit voluntarily because she felt "very aggrieved that she had not been promoted", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Failing to consult an absent employee about a change to her start times was a sign of "management incompetence", and not an intention to end her employment, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer that sacked a senior executive for muttering "offensive" words during an out-of-hours incident has been ordered to pay him $1.5 million in damages and compensation.
After proposing to make a pregnant employee's role redundant, an employer dismissed her by suggesting that she quit, asking her to leave the workplace and then confirming her alleged resignation in writing, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Evidence of an employer's "considerable disinterest" in addressing a general manager's workplace complaint has significantly undermined its defence to his adverse action claim.
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