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A supervisor was unfairly sacked for bullying and timekeeping fraud, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding his employer denied him an opportunity to defend himself.

An employee's paid agent, who threatened not to participate in conciliation if his offer to settle an unfair dismissal claim wasn't accepted, will potentially have to pay nearly $29k as a result of his unreasonable actions.

Allowing a supervisor to retract his resignation on the condition of returning to work as a team member amounted to a dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

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.

An employee's resignation, tendered after his last day of work, didn't alter the fact that he had been dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found.

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.