It was "excessive" and unfair to take six months to investigate workplace misbehaviour allegations, a commission has found in upholding an employee's psychological injury claim.
In a new ruling highlighting the importance of discussing expectations when employees resign, the Fair Work Commission has found a manager didn't "freely" agree to leave before his notified end date.
A manager had "ostensible authority" to act on an employer's behalf, despite its claims to the contrary, and made it "unequivocally clear" to an employee that she no longer had a job, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that hundreds of labour hire employees, on-hired to Woolworths, are not entitled to the backpay that their directly-employed colleagues received after voting up a new enterprise agreement with a 'same pay' clause.
An employer has been ordered to pay a sacked worker $28k in compensation, after it backed out of an agreement to provide him with support to achieve his performance targets.
An employer was entitled to sack an employee for his "repeated poor performance, bad punctuality and unexplained absenteeism", but its procedural failings made the dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A labour hire company that wasn't informed a host had ended its employee's assignment has successfully argued it doesn't have to face her general protections claim.
An employer didn't force an employee to resign when it ordered her to cease working from home due to safety concerns, according to the Fair Work Commission.
An absent employee was understandably aggrieved by his employer putting an out-of-office message on his emails stating he was on "mental health leave", however this didn't amount to discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.
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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