Criminal charges that prevented a religious education employee from working with children did not 'frustrate' his employment contract, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, in allowing him to proceed with an unfair dismissal claim.
Paying close attention to five employment-contract "grey areas" can help HR professionals reduce their organisation's exposure to legal risks, says employment lawyer Fay Calderone.
Workers are changing jobs more frequently and have greater access to sensitive company information than ever before, yet organisations continually neglect risks associated with the offboarding process, an expert says.
A safety manager who sent abusive emails from his professional LinkedIn account and tried to dictate the terms of his work was not unfairly sacked, despite some "apparent lapses" in his employer's procedure, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer that plans to remove all its "people manager" roles is offering unhappy staff a generous severance payment, but an employment lawyer says this type of approach to large-scale change carries some risks.
An employer has been ordered to pay a former senior executive more than $2.9 million after a court found his employment contract incorporated the company's unpublished redundancy policy.
Employers that engage on-hire workers without understanding the parameters of the arrangement are exposing themselves to an under-the-radar legal minefield, warns a lawyer.
An employer had valid grounds to sack a worker who accidentally sent a text message to her manager labelling him a 'complete dick', the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
One of the most important aspects of executive remuneration is also the part employers often ignore when drafting employment contracts, warns lawyer Brett Feltham.
Blurring boundaries between work and personal time pose increasingly complex risks for employers. Watch this webcast to understand the extent to which you can monitor and manage worker conduct that occurs outside of the traditional workplace and hours.
