Employees aren't protected under strengthened whistleblower protections for detriment they suffered before the current laws came into effect, a full Federal Court has affirmed.
A manager and his "alter ego" company have been ordered to pay his former employer $474k, after a court found he breached his fiduciary duty not to use his position for personal gain.
An employee who misrepresented when she finished work on 17 occasions in a six-week period engaged in "time fraud" and was fairly sacked, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee has been cleared to pursue a s-xual harassment claim against her former CEO and employer, despite the latter arguing she had welcomed the alleged behaviour.
An employer had a valid reason to dismiss an employee who failed to follow its lawful and reasonable directions to work in its office spaces, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Qantas took unlawful adverse action when deciding to outsource thousands of positions to prevent workers from engaging in industrial action, despite those workers not having a workplace right to take such action at the time, the High Court has ruled.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has accused six employees of engaging in a "sham exercise" when they voted up an enterprise agreement, finding their approval was "entirely lacking in authenticity and moral authority".
An employer mischaracterised an employee's "carelessness" as serious misconduct, which further "coloured its judgement" about his lack of remorse, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in unfair dismissal proceedings.
An employer criticised for failing to undertake "even the most basic level of investigative analysis" has been ordered to reinstate an employee it sacked for misconduct.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
