Overtime practices adopted by employees without authorisation can take on "a life of their own", a lawyer warns following a class action ruling that has "broad" implications for employers.
A group of employees who worked overtime "regularly and extensively" without obtaining formal permission did so with "implied" authorisation, a court has found.
Regularly questioning an employee about why he wasn't completing his assigned tasks amounted to bullying and harassment, and caused his psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
An employer had "no case to answer" regarding an employee's alleged work-from-home rights, but whether she was bullied after requesting flexibility remains to be determined, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employee who claimed he had no choice but to quit after being placed on repeated performance improvement plans has lost his unfair dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding his employer took "reasonable steps" to support him.
An employee who live-streamed her participation in an anti-lockdown protest has failed to convince a commission that her dismissal was harsh because several mitigating factors "clouded" her judgement.
An employer has been warned to do more to meet its positive duty to prevent s-xual harassment, after the Fair Work Commission found an employee's inappropriate behaviour went "unchecked" for years.
An employee has won compensation for a psychological injury he suffered after a colleague, with whom he'd been embroiled in conflict for years, was promoted and threatened to "go after" him.
An employer has defended sacking an absent employee after an independent medical assessment found "malignant resentment" prevented her from ever being fit to return.
A casual employee has failed to prove a Centrelink notification was evidence she had been dismissed, with the Fair Work Commission finding her employer had temporarily removed her from its payroll system due to business conditions.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
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