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A tribunal will now reconsider whether an employer discriminated against a female manager who earned less than her male colleagues, after an appeal court accepted it applied outdated concepts to her original claim.

The Fair Work Commission has 'hinted' at a new approach to determining employment contract disputes, in an important ruling analysing whether a demotion was a dismissal, a lawyer says.

An employer has successfully argued that demoting an employee after a misconduct investigation did not constitute a dismissal, in a case with important implications for all employers.

An employer should have assessed an employee who was showing "evident signs" of mental health issues at work and then moved her to another role, the High Court has ruled in upholding her psychiatric injury appeal.

An employee has failed to prove he was unfairly sacked for his out-of-hours assault of a subordinate, with whom he was having an affair, after arguing it didn't impact his work performance.

A "little bit" of swearing towards a director was "nothing serious", but when the behaviour escalated to verbal and physical abuse it became unreasonable, a tribunal has found in a psych injury appeal.

An employee has won $432k in damages after an appeal court ruled his employer was liable for a co-worker's drunken behaviour.

An employee accused of bullying her manager has failed to prove her proposed disciplinary action was unwarranted.

A Fair Work Commission full bench has affirmed the principles of what constitutes work-related conduct out-of-hours, in upholding an employer's appeal against a reinstatement order.