An employee who claimed he was "gaslighted" and bullied by colleagues more than a decade ago has been blocked from pursuing his discrimination claim, with a tribunal finding the lengthy delay in making his application was "inexcusable".
An employee who experienced "serious and repeated" sexual harassment at work has won an extra $129k in damages, after a court found the original $10k awarded was "inadequate in the extreme".
The Fair Work Commission has granted a worker's request for copies of emails, notes and reports related to her employer's internal processes, as part of her stop-bullying claim.
An employer's "outright rejection" of a trial return-to-work plan after an employee's lengthy absence was unlawful discrimination, a tribunal has ruled in awarding him more than $230k.
A director sexually harassed an employee when he slapped her on the bottom and twice declared his feelings for her, the Federal Court has found in ordering his employer to pay $268k in damages and compensation.
An employee who repeatedly provided "unacceptable" medical certificates to cover his absence effectively abandoned his employment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer's dysfunction enabled an "extremely flawed" dismissal of an employee, one week after it promoted her, and it then displayed a "lack of professionalism" during unfair dismissal proceedings, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Sharing offensive material with colleagues on social media was "abject stupidity", a Fair Work Commission full bench has found, but the conduct wasn't sufficiently connected to work to justify dismissal.
An employee was inappropriately accused of "criminal" conduct then subjected to a procedurally deficient investigation, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding her unfair dismissal claim.
A commission has criticised an employee's complaint about a "racist and s-xually inappropriate" Microsoft Teams message, finding it unnecessarily consumed "countless" work hours and thousands of dollars in lost productivity.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
