A redeployment offer that added nearly two hours to an employee's daily commute was reasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in reducing his redundancy pay. Also in this article: a roundup of recent dismissal cases; and other compliance developments.
The Fair Work Commission has again rejected undertakings that BHP's in-house labour hire organisation hoped would push its enterprise agreements over the line.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected arguments that an employer could avoid paying a sacked manager in lieu of notice because he was receiving workers' compensation at the time.
An employer was understandably alarmed at discovering an employee conducting a self-described "side hustle", but it acted "too hastily" in dismissing him, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Almost half (48%) of employees globally don't trust their organisations, as a result of broken promises employers might not even know they're making, Gartner's HR vice president says.
The Federal Circuit Court has awarded 48 former Macquarie Bank employees more than $1.3 million in compensation for underpayments, while describing their claim as "rapacious" with "an element of double dipping".
An employer has been ordered to pay a senior executive more than $1.1 million in damages after it sacked her without reasonable notice, in breach of an employment contract she never signed.
The CEO of an HR services provider who was sacked for serious misconduct is claiming her dismissal was unlawful adverse action. And IBM is backpaying its employees more than $12m after failing to ensure its annualised salary arrangements complied with all relevant modern awards.
An employer that required workers to turn up early for their shifts without payment and to "volunteer" for overtime has been fined $65k, with a tribunal describing its Fair Work Act breaches as brazen and reckless.
It's time for the legal system to recognise "quasi-independent" workers who are neither contractor nor employee, an employment lawyer says in this Q&A on casuals and contracting compliance.
