Decisions handed down in disputes about flexible work requests highlight the Fair Work Commission's "wide scope" to make orders when parties can't come to an agreement, and the key role that flexible work trials can play, a lawyer says.
In the aftermath of an unsuccessful stop-bullying claim, directing an employee to return to her substantive role was reasonable management action, a tribunal has ruled in a psychological injury dispute.
A manager's withdrawal from a "fair and reasonable" performance management process left her employer with no choice but to sack her, or it risked others disregarding its directions in the future, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee held at knifepoint in his home for three hours by his manager is entitled to compensation for a psychological injury, despite his employer's argument that the attack wasn't connected to work.
A labour hire worker has been blocked from pursuing a general protections claim against two purported employers, with the Fair Work Commission accepting that neither terminated his employment.
Fixed-term contract restrictions have been a challenging reform to manage, but employers can take some comfort from the decisions handed down in disputes lodged so far, a workplace lawyer says in our latest Q&A.
After being ordered to reinstate an employee sacked for physical violence, an employer has failed to convince a Fair Work Commission full bench that the earlier decision applied the wrong legal test for self-defence.
The Fair Work Commission has confirmed that it can't arbitrate a flexible work dispute about a request that was made one month before the employee met the eligibility criteria.
Emails to an HR practitioner showed an employee appreciated his help in facilitating her retirement, and not that she was "forced down a path she did not want to take", the Fair Work Commission has found.
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