It was fair to sack a manager who engaged in excessive criticism of staff, to the point of bullying and harassment, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer decided to make an employee's role redundant three months before it consulted with her, the Fair Work Commission has found, in ordering it to pay $19k for unfair dismissal.
A 72-year-old worker denied casual conversion wasn't "the victim of a complex conspiracy", the Federal Circuit Court has ruled, in dismissing his general protections claim.
Despite damaging her employer's reputation with clients, an employee would have had "reasonable prospects" of improving her performance if she'd been given the chance to do so, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding her unfair dismissal claim.
The Fair Work Commission has allowed a general protections dismissal claim to proceed against an organisation, despite it not directly employing the worker who alleges she was sacked at its direction.
Failing to confirm whether a distressed employee meant to quit during an emotional conversation resulted in his dismissal, despite his employer having no intention to let him go, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The Fair Work Commission will be able to resolve disputes about whether an employee has been dismissed without conducting a hearing, under proposed changes to the Fair Work Act.
An employee was sacked for using a derogatory term he'd never heard of, based on the evidence of a coworker with a "dead-set agenda" against him, the Fair Work Commission has found.
After assuring an HR practitioner that her continuity of service wouldn't be broken when she transitioned from permanent to casual, an employer has nonetheless defeated her subsequent unfair dismissal claim by relying on an 11-day gap between her contracts.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
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