An employer has been cleared to pursue disciplinary action against an employee after a commission rejected it was discriminating against him because he was a male domestic violence victim.
The Federal Court has found an employer threatened employees with repatriation to "intimidate them into silence", knowing they would put up with below-award rates and conditions.
An employee who didn't disclose his mental health issues when he started working for an organisation, because of "privacy and stigma concerns", has lost his adverse action claim.
It was "grossly unfair" to give an HR executive a short timeframe to consider a retirement offer, but he was the "unfortunate victim" of a restructure rather than adverse action, a court has ruled.
A employee sacked for social media breaches has won a rehearing of her dispute, after the initial judge failed to give detailed reasons for dismissing her claim.
An employee's intellectual freedom rights trumped his employer's code of conduct requirement to treat others with sensitivity, a full Federal Court has ruled in upholding his appeal.
An employer has successfully appealed against a $5.2m damages payout to a senior manager who claimed his "brutal" dismissal was unlawful adverse action.
Asynchronous communication is the key to work/life harmony, according to a remote-first HR leader. And Qantas has failed to prove it didn't take unlawful adverse action in outsourcing thousands of jobs during COVID-19.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
