A manager treated his common law duties to his employer with contempt, embroiling subordinates and third parties in his "brazen" misappropriation of stock and money, a court has ruled.
An employee sacked for misconduct has won a rehearing of her adverse action claim, with a court accepting her employer might have included workplace complaints among the "behavioural issues" it considered when dismissing her.
Declining an employee's repeated requests for information about a complaint against him constituted discrimination on the basis of his employment activity, a tribunal has ruled.
An employer was entitled to direct a white-collar employee to undertake a dr-g test after allegations he was slurring and swaying at work, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee is claiming she suffered a compensable psychological injury after reporting her manager for serious misconduct and then continuing to work under him, fearing that he knew.
An employee has failed to convince a court her employer was involved in organised crime and discriminated against her because she was "white, non-Muslim, female and mature".
An employee who claimed his employer exploited his disability at work has failed to prove his dismissal was unlawful, after a court accepted he struggled to follow reasonable directions.
An employer has failed to win interim restraints against three former employees, with a court finding their "know-how" didn't fall within its available protections.
An employer took reasonable steps to determine whether an employee was medically exempt from wearing face masks at work and wasn't "unnecessarily combative" in enforcing its policy, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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