Employment law cases | Page 19 (3,652 items)

An employee who threw a coffee cup "with significant force" after a colleague called him a "boofhead" has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission his conduct was a result of provocation.

It wasn't unlawful to sack an employee who resisted returning to the office because of her chronic health conditions, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.

A Fair Work Commissioner applied the wrong principles when he found an employer had no reason to question whether a resignation, tendered during a paranoid delusion, was freely given.

An employee has won his unfair dismissal claim despite showing a concerning lack of insight into his inappropriate behaviour, after the Fair Work Commission found his sacking could have a "catastrophic consequence".

There was no evidence to support an employee's allegations of "unresolved psychosocial hazards", and in any case these didn't justify his unauthorised absences from work, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Even if some complaints about an employee's behaviour were the result of ADHD-related "misunderstandings", her conduct warranted termination, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employer accused of engaging in a "protracted campaign" to dismiss a pregnant employee has successfully defended her general protections claim.

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It was fair to sack an employee whose workplace complaints were so unreasonable and persistent that managing them required another worker's almost full-time dedication, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Telling an employee who was seeking an early pay rise not to copy the CEO in on her grievance emails was clearly lawful and reasonable, and breaching this direction warranted her dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.