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An employer has failed to temporarily block the reinstatement of a sacked employee who it believed posed a "serious" health and safety risk to its workplace.

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.

A Fair Work Commission full bench has overturned a finding that an "exemplary" employee's 12-month first and final warning for a serious safety incident was an appropriate disciplinary outcome.

It was unfair to move a longstanding senior leader into a non-managerial role, despite complaints he had denied one employee procedural fairness and made inappropriate comments to another, a commission has ruled.

An employee who admitted to sexually harassing a junior colleague has failed to overturn his dismissal, despite a commission finding his employer's four-year delay in taking disciplinary action was unreasonable.

An employee accused of making a female colleague feel uncomfortable has lost his psychological injury appeal, after a court found management's response to the complaint was "unremarkable" and reasonable in the circumstances.

An employer's decision not to offer an employee a new fixed-term contract after she disclosed she was pregnant did not amount to discrimination, a tribunal has found.

An employer did not act in an "unconscionable" or intimidatory manner when accusing an employee of criminal conduct, however it has failed to prove on appeal that its allegations provided a valid reason to sack her.

An employer repudiated an employee's training contract when it unintentionally terminated instead of amending it, a Fair Work Commission full bench has found in clearing him to pursue his unfair dismissal claim.

An employee who tried to defend an "offensive" social media post as "intellectual freedom" has failed to prove he exercised his right in accordance with the "highest ethical, professional and legal standards".