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An employer didn't act "with undue haste" regarding a worker whose visa renewal arrived just days after he was sacked for not having Australian work rights, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

The Fair Work Commission has used a "rarely exercised" power to revoke an unfair dismissal ruling it made in an employee's favour, after finding she misled both her employer and the tribunal.

An employer wasn't obligated to provide a detailed employment contract for a "directly comparable" redeployment opportunity, the Fair Work Commission has found, in ruling it fulfilled its consultation requirements and the redundancy was genuine.

Despite maintaining that lying would be an "affront to his faith", an employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he was falsely accused of misconduct.

An employee who won $20k for unfair dismissal has tried to argue his compensation should have been higher, and that his employer should have been penalised for "lying and exaggerating" in its evidence.

An employee's "extraordinary circumstances" gave him the right to request a working-from-home arrangement, and he did not resign by repudiation, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A dispute over whether a worker was an employee or a contractor illustrates how some of the recent Fair Work Act amendments can be particularly complex to apply in practice, a lawyer says.

It was fair to dismiss a manager who made disrespectful comments to and about her colleagues, using terms that included "bitch", "lazy" and "pit bull", the Fair Work Commission has found.

Errors made by a professional were not reasonable conduct, but fell short of "data manipulation" and didn't warrant summary dismissal, according to the Fair Work Commission.

Reorganising a workplace so an employee could safely perform duties would have represented a "transformation of his substantive position", rather than a reasonable adjustment, the Fair Work Commission has found.