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The Fair Work Commission has declined to make orders to stop s-xual harassment, in the first ruling handed down under the new jurisdiction.

Communication between managers and employees can sometimes be "wrongheaded or unfair" without amounting to bullying, a court has ruled in rejecting a psych injury appeal.

Unreasonable behaviour that occurs more than once won't be considered bullying unless it is persistent, a court has ruled in rejecting an employee's stop-bullying appeal.

An employee who described the COVID-19 pandemic as "fearmongering" and was strongly aggrieved at having to comply with workplace requirements has lost his unfair dismissal claim.

An employer displayed "marked indifference" to an employee's complaints about appearing in a sexualised workplace safety poster, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employer's duty of care is personal to each individual employee, but its response to a foreseeable psych injury risk must be capable of extending to any employee, a court has ruled in a psych injury appeal.

The High Court has refused to grant special leave to an employee whose $5.2 million damages award for adverse action had been overturned, but the dispute is set to be reheard in the Federal Court.

It was potentially unreasonable not to allow an employee to take long-service leave to await an unapproved vaccine, but the Fair Work Commission has stopped short of preventing her dismissal for failing to comply with a vaccination mandate.

A candidate has failed to prove a recruiter's "negative" facial expressions during an interview impacted her ability to answer questions, but the employer has nonetheless been ordered to conduct a new selection process.

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