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.
The Fair Work Commission has lambasted an employer for its "unconscionable and unscrupulous" attempt to deny a sacked employee any remedy for unfair dismissal.
"Clear shortfalls" in an employer's available staffing levels, which were "well in excess of typical absences", provided a reasonable business ground to refuse an employee's flexible work request, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
