The fact it took an employer two weeks to sack an employee for a confidentiality breach indicated summary dismissal wasn't a reasonable response to his misconduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has made a "rare and unusual" decision to award an employer indemnity costs after a worker lodged a general protections claim that was "doomed to fail".
The Fair Work Commission has condemned an employer for its "gross denial of natural justice" after it summarily dismissed an employee whose ex-wife claimed he was stealing from the company.
There is a fine line between respect and "insolence" when an employee is friends with their manager, and a worker who was sacked for bullying overstepped it, the Fair Work Commission has found.
High-performing HR teams set themselves apart in three ways, research has found. Meanwhile, a high-earning company director has been cleared to claim unfair dismissal, low-income employees feel psychologically unsafe to innovate at work, and more.
Dismissing an employee for a racial slur made within earshot of a colleague who took offence was a "disproportionate" response to his conduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee who claimed he had no idea he was being performance managed has lost his unfair dismissal claim, after the Fair Work Commission found a lack of formal warnings didn't undermine the termination.
An employment lawyer has warned HR against dismissing underperforming workers without following formal processes, despite the Fair Work Commission recently validating such an approach.
An employer has been ordered to reinstate an employee it sacked for aggressively swearing at supervisors, after a commission found "unnecessarily restrictive" management prompted his outburst.
The Fair Work Commission has slammed an employer's "callous" dismissal of a mentally ill employee, while noting its "unfortunate" approach occurs frequently in successful unfair dismissal cases.
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