The NSW Supreme Court has sentenced Lauren Cranston to eight years in prison for her role in the Plutus Payroll tax scandal, finding she showed no contrition for her actions.
The Fair Work Commission has chastised an employer for treating a long-serving manager "with disdain", but has stopped short of finding its conduct was aimed at ending his employment.
Even though a team leader's second job wasn't with a competitor, as her first employer claimed, it was nonetheless "detrimental" to her duties and justified her dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employee did "exactly what he should have done" when a colleague threatened to fight him several times, the Fair Work Commission has found in awarding him compensation for unfair dismissal.
An HR director's decision to sack an employee, who had taken more than 2.5 years' leave in a six-year period, was likely a breach of anti-discrimination laws, a tribunal has ruled.
An employer's response to workplace bullying "fell well short of adequate", but it gave an employee several reasonable alternatives to resignation, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer has failed to prove it made two roles redundant because it held a "genuine belief" that COVID was negatively impacting its business, with a court finding the timing of its decision was "inexplicable".
An employer's enquiry into a worker's serious privacy breach caused her psychological injury, but it was a "necessary first step" in a reasonable disciplinary process, a commission has ruled.
A long-serving employee who was legally advised to "hold off" on reporting criminal charges to his employer has lost his unfair dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding his code of conduct obligations were "unambiguously" clear.
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