An employer has defended its decision not to renew a manager's employment contract, after it received negative feedback from his colleagues and discovered he'd failed to escalate serious cultural issues.
An employee had "legitimate privacy concerns" about her employer's vaccination history request and was unfairly sacked for resisting it, a commission has ruled in awarding her 14 weeks' compensation.
A casual employee who worked every week for more than a year has been blocked from pursuing her unfair dismissal claim, after the Fair Work Commission found her employment wasn't regular and systematic.
A manager who was bullied and intimidated, and then sacked, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness has been awarded $163k in adverse action proceedings.
The Fair Work Commission has praised an employer's two-year process to help a worker return to his pre-injury role, finding it ultimately had a valid reason to dismiss him.
No worker should be sacked for following their doctor's advice before having a COVID-19 vaccination, a Fair Work Commissioner has said in ordering an employee's reinstatement.
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