Changing an employee's role when she returned from parental leave didn't repudiate her employment, but failing to pay her a $22k bonus breached a fundamental part of her contract and amounted to a dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
It was unfair to sack an employee who refused to sign a new employment contract with higher sales targets and "unreasonable" restraint clauses, the Fair Work Commission has found in awarding him $42.5k in compensation.
An employer has a reasonably arguable case that a former employee breached his contract's confidential information and post-employment terms, the Federal Court has ruled in imposing interlocutory restraints.
A senior employee should have known that his occasional rudeness might impact a colleague, but his behaviour didn't rise to the level of bullying, a court has ruled in awarding him $368k for wrongful dismissal.
An employer that sacked a senior executive for muttering "offensive" words during an out-of-hours incident has been ordered to pay him $1.5 million in damages and compensation.
Some employers are warning against "heavy-handed" efforts to regulate the use of non-compete clauses, while other parties say a ban is appropriate for employees unless they're high-income earners or holding senior roles.
An apprehended domestic violence order that prohibited an employee from contacting her manager "frustrated" her employment contract, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in concluding she wasn't dismissed.
