An employee made a "conscious decision" to perform his safety-critical role despite taking drugs a few days earlier, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in upholding his dismissal.
An employee who allegedly made inappropriate comments to a member of the public and touched her hair has failed to prove her accusations were so vague as to render his dismissal unfair.
It was "easy" to see why an employee believed she had been targeted for disciplinary action, but she was ultimately the "author of her own misfortunes", a court has found in rejecting her adverse action claim.
The action taken by "frustrated" managers was not always perfect, but it was still reasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in dismissing a stop-bullying application.
A recruitment panel did not humiliate a job applicant when it recorded in file notes that he was "crestfallen" about his failure to be selected for a role, a commission has ruled.
A general manager's "sense of entitlement" regarding his former employer's confidential files and intellectual property was "completely at odds" with his legal obligations, a court has ruled.
A court has fined an employer $10k for bullying and ordered it to pay a similar amount in costs after finding it repeatedly accused an employee of lying about her back injury.
An employee who pushed back against a vaccination direction and argued that requiring evidence of jabs breached her right to privacy has lost her unfair dismissal claim.
An employer had a valid reason to sack an employee who attended a protest during work hours and in breach of stay-at-home orders, but its process was harsh, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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.
