An employer's "very modest step" in limiting an employee's communications with his supervisor was reasonable action, in light of identified risks to the latter's mental health, a tribunal has found.
One reason employees struggle with mental wellbeing is that they expect work to deplete them, but when employers truly support their health and wellbeing, they can find themselves returning home with more energy than when they left, an organisational coach and mediator says.
Daily exercise has a positive "one-day lagged effect" on employee wellbeing and job performance, especially when the preceding work demands were high, researchers have found.
An employee's failure to declare medication he was taking for mental health issues denied his employer the opportunity to assess whether it posed any workplace risks, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding his dismissal.
It's easy to dismiss happiness as a "fluffy" topic, but deploying wellness strategies without a happiness lens is akin to applying a band-aid, a specialist says.
An employer has failed to temporarily block the reinstatement of a sacked employee who it believed posed a "serious" health and safety risk to its workplace.
It's not new to say middle managers are experiencing high rates of burnout, but employers are failing to implement some of the most simple, effective prevention and mitigation strategies, an expert says.
Summarily dismissing a worker for evading a drug test was warranted, despite his claims he had "defecated in his pants" and needed to rush home, according to the Fair Work Commission.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected that reinstating an employee would make others think they could "get away" with breaching workplace policies; rather, it said this case would clarify the employer's rules around acceptable behaviour.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has overturned a finding that an "exemplary" employee's 12-month first and final warning for a serious safety incident was an appropriate disciplinary outcome.
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