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An employer victimised an employee after she made a sexual harassment claim against her manager by preventing her from returning to the workplace once its investigation was complete, a tribunal has found.

An employer's dismissal of its most senior manager following employee complaints was "capricious, spiteful and prejudiced", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A manager who set up a business in competition with her former employer has been ordered to refile her defence to allegations she breached post-employment restraints and stole its confidential information.

Serial bullies are essentially psychopaths, but employers can identify those in their ranks and ensure work environments adequately "constrain" them, an author says.

An employer was wrong to sack a manager without warning after his team delivered a JK Rowling book a day early, the Fair Work Commission has found, awarding him $50k in compensation.

An employer that failed to follow its own work-from-home procedures and provide a remote worker with adequate supervision and feedback has been found liable for her psychological injury.

The Fair Work Commission has chastised a large employer for dismissing an employee over the phone while she was on sick leave, likening its action to "tossing out a dirty rag".

An employer that made generalised accusations against an employee, despite having video footage of her alleged misconduct, practised a "form of entrapment", the Fair Work Commission has found in ordering her reinstatement.

An employee who claimed his new team leader micromanaged and bullied him has had his stop-bullying application rejected, after the Fair Work Commission found her behaviour "abrupt" but not repeated or unreasonable.

Having a workplace bullying policy is akin to putting up a wet floor sign, according to a psychologist, whose research shows having a policy doesn't remove the risks that enable bullying to occur in the first place.