An employer that was "acutely aware" of an employee's "mental health fragility" acted unreasonably when handling his return to full duties and his complaint about a manager, a commission has found.
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Technical issues that prevented an employee from working from home for a few days were "hardly of sufficient gravity" to force him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Asking an employee to attend a disciplinary meeting and provide a medical certificate for his unauthorised absence wasn't "coercion", the Fair Work Commission has found in unfair dismissal proceedings.
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A candidate's job offer was never finalised because the prospective employer had a "profoundly negative reaction" to one of his referees, not because he had made an unfair dismissal claim several years earlier, a commission has ruled.
A remote worker was unfairly dismissed for refusing to accept changes to her position that would require her to perform her duties in the office, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A worker could have followed formal grievance processes rather than leaving her job, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting her constructive dismissal claim.
The High Court has granted an employee special leave to appeal a ruling that found an employer couldn't have reasonably foreseen his "extraordinary" psychiatric response to being dismissed.
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