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.
An employee didn't "engage in a frolic of her own" when she and two colleagues got into a spa bath while "significantly" intoxicated at a work Christmas party, a tribunal has ruled in awarding her compensation for an injury.
Criticisms about a director on her employer's Facebook page had no "rational connection" to work and in any case didn't amount to bullying, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A job applicant was not discriminated against when he unsuccessfully applied for a role, a tribunal has found, but he did suffer gender-based discrimination during the subsequent grievance process.
A manager "reconstructed" evidence to support his reasons for excluding a worker from a site, the Federal Court has ruled in adverse action proceedings.
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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