An employer has successfully defended an adverse action claim from an employee with a psychological condition who it dismissed for failing to attend medical appointments.
An employee who was sacked with five minutes' notice has been awarded more than $27k by the Fair Work Commission after it found that, in a profane workplace, telling a manager to "get f-cked" did not warrant summary dismissal.
An employer's decision to dismiss a worker for "extreme" online comments was valid and did not infringe his implied constitutional freedom of communication, a full Federal Court has ruled.
An employer was entitled to require a worker to attend a medical appointment with its choice of doctor, a Federal Court full bench has ruled in a long-running dispute.
Doctors rarely elaborate on questions by choice, so if employers want detail from an independent medical examiner's report they should be prepared to work for it, a lawyer says.
An organisation's "sensible" dismissal of a long-serving employee who breached its drug and alcohol policy serves as a lesson for all employers, according to a workplace lawyer.
The Fair Work Commission has described as "perplexing" an HR manager's decision to continue a disciplinary meeting after an employee became emotional, and then sack her as she walked out the door.
It was unfair of an employer to end a worker's contract after a minor incident, despite his earlier "absolute final warning" for accusing an HR manager of killing his colleague.
An HR manager's decision to dismiss an employee who couldn't perform the inherent requirements of her role was reasonable, despite some "regrettable" lapses in process, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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