Recent scandals involving executives being punished for secret affairs with subordinates shouldn't have employers rushing to police or penalise all workplace romances, according to a lawyer.
Doctors rarely elaborate on questions by choice, so if employers want detail from an independent medical examiner's report they should be prepared to work for it, a lawyer says.
An organisation's "sensible" dismissal of a long-serving employee who breached its drug and alcohol policy serves as a lesson for all employers, according to a workplace lawyer.
The Fair Work Commission has described as "perplexing" an HR manager's decision to continue a disciplinary meeting after an employee became emotional, and then sack her as she walked out the door.
Explaining upcoming penalty rate cuts to affected workers could prove a "nightmare" for employers, especially when the decision will affect different employees in different ways, an academic warns.
Two investigation letters, sent to an employee after a workplace assault, aggravated her psychiatric injuries but didn't amount to a duty of care breach, an appeal court has ruled.
Transitional arrangements for the Fair Work Commission's penalty rates decision remain a key element of the changes to watch, according to an employment lawyer.
Applications to terminate enterprise agreements are on the rise, but just because an agreement is old doesn't mean an employer should scrap it, a workplace lawyer warns.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
