An employer has been awarded its costs of defending a meritless disability discrimination claim, after a tribunal found the employee failed to engage with any offers to resolve his complaint.
Expressing frustration about management or operational issues "is a common incident of life at any workplace", and doesn't always qualify as a "complaint", the Federal Circuit Court has affirmed in adverse action proceedings.
A litigious employee has failed to convince the Federal Court that her employer breached her contract by rostering her for fewer hours than it had agreed to, back in 2023.
A mutually agreed termination couldn't later be characterised as a dismissal, even if the parties were in dispute about its terms, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The "commensurate" positions an employer offered its workers because their roles were no longer required were in fact demotions that repudiated their employment contracts, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Employees' expectations around flexibility and hybrid working are creating "some interesting issues" in redundancy-related disputes, an employment lawyer says.
Withdrawing a job offer after a candidate made "persistent phone calls and negative comments" could not have been an "illegal termination", because no employment relationship yet existed, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An executive's acceptance of a mutual separation offer via email amounted to a binding settlement, even though he never signed the deed of release, the Fair Work Commission has found in throwing out his general protections dispute.
An employer had a valid reason to dismiss an employee who breached its code of conduct, and its decision was fair regardless of whether she'd been specifically trained in the circumstances that led to her actions, the Fair Work Commission has found.
