An employee held a "reasonable suspicion" that warranted blowing the whistle on her employer, but her disclosures weren't the reason she was dismissed, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employer has been barred from sacking a worker who might "never" return to full duties, while the Fair Work Commission decides whether she has a right to ongoing reasonable adjustments.
An employer has fended off a claim that it rejected a candidate for a role because he wasn't Australian, with a tribunal finding his $8.7 billion racial vilification claim was "misconceived".
A large employer's "enthusiasm" to sack an employee causing "considerable angst" at work resulted in a severely flawed process, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee has failed to prove that a workplace advisory service "threatened and coerced" her into settling her unfair dismissal claim on unfavourable terms.
Transferring two employees to different workplaces following an "extremely ugly" out-of-hours altercation was harsh, a commission has ruled, finding a demotion and $25k annual salary drop was more appropriate.
An employee should have addressed her workplace frustrations internally instead of "openly criticising" her employer to a competitor, but her summary dismissal was unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
It was open to conclude that an employer would keep losing clients if its former employee wasn't restrained from using its confidential information at his new workplace, the Federal Court has ruled.
A worker was placed in an "unnecessarily uncomfortable" position after being accused of serious policy breaches, a commission has ruled in upholding her psychological injury claim.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
