The Fair Work Commission's landmark casual conversion ruling has implications for all organisations that engage casual labour, and its circumstances would likely have "tripped up" many employers, according to a lawyer.
It was reasonable for an employer to be concerned about an employee's criminal charges and their potential implications for its female workers' safety, but it wasn't fair to dismiss him over them, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A manager held concerns about an employee's performance "well before" he complained about micromanagement, the Federal Circuit Court has accepted, in dismissing an adverse action claim.
An employer has to convert a casual employee to permanent part-time employment, after a landmark ruling on the Federal Government's new 'employee choice' provisions.
The "shaming and belittling language" an employee used at work was unjustified, regardless of his beliefs about appropriate attire and conduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer was wrong to consider its longstanding mobile phone policy wasn't a "working arrangement" that could be the subject of a flexible work request, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A workplace investigation that conflated performance and conduct issues, and had the same investigator and decision-maker, resulted in an employee feeling that she had no real choice but to resign, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.
Pre-existing flexible work arrangements that gave other workers Fridays off meant it was reasonable for an employer to refuse a new request involving that particular day, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The Fair Work Commission has highlighted staffing shortages as a work design issue that can lead to "feelings of being bullied at work", while rejecting that a manager's conduct amounted to bullying.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
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