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The first fully-contested judgment regarding a breach of the Fair Work Act's workplace s-xual harassment provisions has important implications for all employers. This Q&A unpacks the Federal Court's key findings and what organisations can learn from them.

Advising a talent manager "in a totally ad hoc fashion" that his role was becoming redundant "only served to further destabilise his already unstable mental state", a commission has found in a psychological injury dispute.

A commission has refused to strike out parts of a worker's stop-bullying claim, despite accepting some of the alleged conduct didn't occur while she was "at work".

After accusing an employee of misconduct because she'd complained about being forced to take annual leave, an employer then effectively dismissed her when it took her departure from work as a resignation, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A managing director was terminated because he complained about a direction that put him in an "impossible position", the Federal Court has ruled.

The Fair Work Commission has rejected that an employee's fourth consecutive fixed-term contract was excluded from the Fair Work Act's limitations, finding he was dismissed.

An employer has failed to overturn a reinstatement order for an employee it sacked for disregarding lawful and reasonable directions.

There appears to be a low level of compliance with employers' positive duty regarding workplace s-xual harassment, with absent or poorly enacted policies common, along with deficient investigations, a lawyer says.

It was fair to sack an employee for misusing his personal leave entitlement, the Fair Work Commission has found, in giving no weight to the medical certificate he obtained through an online service.

An employer has to reinstate an employee sacked for misconduct, after the Fair Work Commission found its ultimate decision-maker effectively "rubber stamped the assessment of others".