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An employer did "everything humanly possible" to obtain an employee's vaccination status and was entitled to dismiss her after she repeatedly rebuffed its requests, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employee's attempt to expose a public figure's "coercive control" amounted to serious and sackable misconduct, but summary dismissal was too harsh a sanction, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employer wasn't "disingenuous or tokenistic" in offering to find further engagements for an employee it removed from a client's site, the Fair Work Commission has accepted in dismissing his claim.

An underperforming employee has failed to prove he was forced to resign, with the Fair Work Commission accepting his manager was genuinely trying to "get the best out of him".

A WHS specialist who refused to give her employer documents stored on her laptop because she was on sick leave was "otherwise capable of sending multiple emails", the Fair Work Commission has noted in upholding her dismissal.

The Fair Work Commission has upheld findings that an employee accused of s-xually harassing a female worker was unfairly sacked and should be reinstated.

A self-proclaimed anti-vaxxer "arguably" suffered discrimination on the basis of "social origin" when she was sacked for failing to meet a vaccination deadline, but the discrimination was not direct nor unlawful, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employee has failed to prove he was sacked for making bullying complaints, rather than because he was accused of sexual harassment.

An employee who admitted to smoking marijuana while on annual leave was not unfairly sacked over a positive test when he returned to work, nor treated less fairly than his colleagues, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A manager who privately vented about his stressful and "toxic" workplace was appropriately sacked for misconduct, with a commission finding he contributed to the negative culture.