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.
Defects in a disciplinary process "were not minor or insignificant" as an employer claimed, a commission has ruled in finding it liable for a manager's psychological injury.
It was unfair to move a longstanding senior leader into a non-managerial role, despite complaints he had denied one employee procedural fairness and made inappropriate comments to another, a commission has ruled.
The "deafening silence" that often follows an investigation can make it seem like speaking up didn't achieve anything, so it's important to remind employees that not seeing action doesn't mean none was taken, a workplace conflict specialist says.
An employer's "repetitive verbal feedback" was not enough to warn an "insensitive" employee her job was at risk, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in awarding her compensation for unfair dismissal.
Some of the awkwardness and discomfort that follow an interpersonal complaint at work is inevitable, but taking certain steps helps alleviate tensions, a conflict specialist says.
An employee who was "simply not reliable" has won his unfair dismissal claim after the Fair Work Commission found his "unacceptable" conduct didn't outweigh his employer's procedural failings.
An employer wanted to keep an employee away from the workplace due to concerns for her own and others' welfare, and not because it had a "vendetta" against her for reporting health and safety incidents, the Federal Court has ruled.
An employee who admitted to sexually harassing a junior colleague has failed to overturn his dismissal, despite a commission finding his employer's four-year delay in taking disciplinary action was unreasonable.
An employer dismissed a manager for regularly leaving work early, without giving him an opportunity to explain his absences, the Fair Work Commission has found.
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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