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Deciding to dismiss an employee within hours of receiving her workplace complaint wasn't unlawful adverse action, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.

Despite establishing some of its disciplinary processes were reasonable, an employer has been found liable for an employee's psychological injury.

The $170k in damages awarded to an employee who suffered "nightmare" conduct from her manager serves as a lesson to all employers to identify and take measures against common risk patterns, according to a workplace lawyer.

Actions that an employer viewed as demonstrating a "lack of care and concern" should have been characterised as performance issues rather than misconduct, according to the Fair Work Commission.

Job-share requests made by two employees over 55 lacked the required nexus with their age to be validly made, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, dismissing the disputes.

Investigating an employee for serious misconduct based on a suspicious medical certificate didn't force him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A physical altercation at a "kick on" after a Christmas party was work-related, even though the event was "not in any way organised authorised or proposed" by the employer, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Bringing a prohibited item to a workplace demonstrated an "astonishing" lack of judgement that went beyond "simply misguided", the Fair Work Commission has found, in upholding an employee's dismissal as fair.

It wasn't harsh or disproportionate to sack an employee who'd repeatedly been warned about starting work late and failing to show up for shifts, despite his claim that the final time was "a genuine mistake", the Fair Work Commission has found.

The "patchwork" of employment histories relevant to an underpayments claim should most likely be collated and made sense of by AI tools, a Federal Court judge has said, in directing the parties to agree on and propose a protocol for the task.