An employee who was absent for two years due to a work-related psychological injury was unreasonably sacked for not completing a performance improvement program, a commission has ruled.
An employer has a "sufficiently strong" case against a former manager who it claimed breached his employment contract by using its confidential information to solicit clients away to a competitor, the Federal Court has ruled.
An employee who suffered from back pain because of her "big boobs" has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission she should have been allowed to return to her physically demanding role after being certified "fit for normal duties".
An employee wrongly believed his organisation's formal process for remote-work approvals could be "arbitrarily changed", the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding his dismissal for serious misconduct.
A manager has claimed he suffered a psychological injury after a social media "debate" made him think it would be "impossible" to avoid conflict at work.
An HR advisor removed an employee from a casual pool because she repeatedly failed to indicate her work availabilities, and not because of her complaints and protected attributes, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employee has won compensation for a psychological injury after a commission accepted she had been treated with hostility by workplace "factions" and criticised in "reply all" emails.
Five employees have failed to prove that their manager bullied them, with the Fair Work Commission commenting it is "appropriate to make allowances for some degree of exasperation or tension" in workplace interactions.
A company could potentially have avoided litigation if it had responded to a warning that its new employee was breaching his confidentiality and non-compete obligations to his former employer, a court has found.
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