Regardless of finding it "offensive" that the success of her s-xual harassment complaint hinged on her employment status, a former employee has been denied the stop-SH orders she sought.
An employee has been denied access to an email in which a colleague expressed personal opinions about him, after a commissioner found full disclosure could compromise the colleague's privacy and reputation.
Individuals in a new leadership group sometimes "let their emotions get the better of them", but none of their behaviour constituted bullying, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
S-xual harassment allegations against an employee were part of an employer's "pre-meditated" plan to remove him from its business "in the most efficient way", the Fair Work Commission has found.
In light of the Fair Work Commission's first multi-employer bargaining decisions, many organisations will now want to think more seriously about how they can shore up control of their employment relationships, a workplace lawyer says.
An employer has claimed it didn't have to provide "gold standard" breastfeeding facilities to accommodate an employee's needs, but its pop-up tent in an open storeroom was far from an adequate solution, a tribunal found.
An employee has failed to prove that he was "performance managed out" of his job, with the Fair Work Commission finding his pattern of inappropriate conduct was a valid dismissal reason.
An employer unfairly dismissed an employee after "misunderstanding" his performance requirements and its own workplace procedures, a tribunal has found, however it declined to reinstate him due to his "manipulative" behaviour.
The FWC's first multi-employer bargaining decision reinforces that the new framework will be relevant to "pretty much every employer in the country", according to a workplace lawyer.
Three unions and 64 childcare employers have been cleared to make a multi-enterprise agreement, after a Fair Work Commission full bench found numerous factors "overwhelmingly" favoured authorising their application.
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