The Fair Work Commission is treating allegations of s-xual harassment as a "very serious matter", but employers still need strong evidence and thorough processes to defend summary dismissals, a workplace lawyer says.
A manager who unsuccessfully claimed his employer had repudiated his employment contract has failed to convince a full bench of the Fair Work Commission that granting him leave to appeal is in the public interest.
An overworked HR leader has won her unfair dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding summary dismissal was a disproportionate response to her allegedly unreasonable workplace behaviour.
An employer had "every right" to sack a worker who refused to update her training, but it chose not to do so, the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting her unfair dismissal claim.
An employee who was "unwilling" to acknowledge the part he played in his ongoing unfitness for work has failed to persuade a full bench of the Fair Work Commission to re-examine a decision that his dismissal was fair.
When an employer failed to communicate its retirement policy to an employee until after it found his replacement, in effect it unfairly dismissed him, according to the Fair Work Commission.
Westpac gave an employee ample warning that she might not receive any redundancy pay if she didn't take up the "identical" role it offered her, the Fair Work Commission has found, in reducing her entitlement from $11,245 to zero.
Blocking out unauthorised time in her calendar and using a "workaround" instead of established process didn't justify dismissal, but an employee went too far when she ignored policies and put clients at risk, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer has lost its jurisdictional objection to a manager's unfair dismissal claim, but his "belittling and insulting" behaviour gave it a valid reason to sack him, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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