There are two major findings with implications for most employers in the Federal Court's latest decision regarding Woolworths' and Coles' alleged underpayments, a workplace lawyer says.
In upholding the sacking of a worker accused of defrauding his employer of $12, a Fair Work Commission member denied him procedural fairness, a full bench has ruled.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has clarified when the end of a fixed-term contract might constitute a dismissal, finding that a conditional "promise" of ongoing employment wasn't a contractually binding offer.
A senior HR advisor's disciplinary process was unnecessarily lengthy and beset with "obvious problems", but that didn't outweigh that she had breached the employer's code of conduct, a commission has ruled.
In deciding not to make stop-bullying orders, the Fair Work Commission doesn't "in all cases" need to first determine whether bullying has occurred, if it considers a current employee is not at risk of such conduct in the future, a full bench has confirmed.
The redeployment obligations confirmed by the High Court today might be "pretty straightforward" in obvious hypothetical scenarios, but they're likely to become "very tricky" for employers operating in the real world, a lawyer says.
The High Court has this morning handed down an important decision that unsettles traditional thinking about the scope of employers' redeployment obligations during workplace restructures.
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