An organisation that secured an employee an alternative job could not reduce her redundancy entitlement because lower pay meant the role wasn't "acceptable".
An employee's unfair dismissal claim can proceed after the Fair Work Commission found her resignation and subsequent re-employment as a casual five days later didn't break her continuous service.
The Fair Work Commission has declined to issue orders preventing an employee's dismissal until his stop-bullying application is determined, finding this would likely circumvent his employer's reasonable disciplinary action.
Asynchronous communication is the key to work/life harmony, according to a remote-first HR leader. And Qantas has failed to prove it didn't take unlawful adverse action in outsourcing thousands of jobs during COVID-19.
It was unfair for a recruitment panel, chaired by an HR manager, to "shift the goal posts" for a vacant role after shortlisting candidates, a commission has ruled.
An employer "let down" an employee who was "crying out for assistance" while working for a bully manager, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in making stop-bullying orders.
An employer has defended a psychological injury claim from a manager who said he was "blindsided" by disciplinary meetings and undermined by his superiors.
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.
