An employee rebuked for 'abandoning' work to celebrate winning a damages claim has failed to convince a tribunal the counselling constituted further victimisation.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected two employees' bullying claims against a CEO, finding their allegations were "vacuous" and that they carried on "like small children".
An employee who claimed his employer failed to act upon his "litany" of workload and resourcing complaints has failed to prove he was constructively dismissed.
Contrary to populist narrative, bullies can change if employers take a three-pronged approach to shifting their "abrasive behaviour", says a leadership expert.
An employer was entitled to re-investigate an incident after receiving new information, but it was "grossly unfair" to make different findings when the facts remained "essentially" the same, the FWC has ruled.
Arrangements "camouflaged" an organisation's ability to control its workforce but its capacity for control pointed to an employment rather than contracting relationship, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee's "heat of the moment" expression about a colleague wasn't a threat of violence and didn't deserve sacking, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The Federal Circuit Court has rejected that an employer 'concocted' an employee's redundancy after she complained about bullying and "dark and damaging" workplace behaviours.
An employee has failed to prove her public scrutiny concerns warranted removing her name from an FWC ruling. Also in this article, a casual has lost her appeal for greater unfair dismissal compensation; and more.
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.
