A supervisor was fairly dismissed for his treatment of vulnerable jobseekers, despite "serious flaws" in the employer's disciplinary process, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld an employee's unfair dismissal claim, finding the employer failed to inform him of allegations prior to an investigation meeting, and chose its own support person for him.
The Fair Work Commission has accepted an employee told his manager to "f-ck off" without any reasonable justification, but found the "indecent haste" of his dismissal rendered it unfair.
An employee who slept on the job was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, after finding the employer "blindsided" her during the workplace investigation.
The Fair Work Commission will redetermine whether a worker was unfairly dismissed after his employer successfully argued the original hearing denied it procedural fairness. Also in this article, calls for more skills investment in the Federal Budget; mind performance training becoming mainstream amid increasing work pressures; and more.
An employer had a valid reason to dismiss an employee after she openly criticised a colleague who was applying for a promotion and revealed confidential details of a workplace investigation into his behaviour.
An HR manager with "significant practical and academic experience" denied an employee procedural fairness when he summarily dismissed him for breaching a workplace policy, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee who was denied the opportunity to learn from his mistakes because he wasn't informed of numerous customer complaints against him has successfully claimed unfair dismissal.
In workplace investigations, assessing the credibility of conflicting evidence can give much-needed weight to misconduct and harassment findings, but many HR professionals shy away from the job, an expert says.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld an employee's stop-bullying application, after finding an HR advisor and manager unreasonably refused to investigate her bullying complaints.
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.
