Doctors rarely elaborate on questions by choice, so if employers want detail from an independent medical examiner's report they should be prepared to work for it, a lawyer says.
An organisation's "sensible" dismissal of a long-serving employee who breached its drug and alcohol policy serves as a lesson for all employers, according to a workplace lawyer.
The Fair Work Commission has described as "perplexing" an HR manager's decision to continue a disciplinary meeting after an employee became emotional, and then sack her as she walked out the door.
Two investigation letters, sent to an employee after a workplace assault, aggravated her psychiatric injuries but didn't amount to a duty of care breach, an appeal court has ruled.
Employers that refer to the broader organisational impacts of social media misconduct when deciding on disciplinary responses might be better placed to defend their actions, an employment lawyer says.
An employer has been ordered to compensate an HR officer for unfair dismissal, after the Fair Work Commission found it was too quick to sack her for poor performance.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered two employers to compensate employees they sacked for serious misconduct after conducting flawed investigations, and has found another two employers fairly dismissed employees for aggressive behaviour.
An employer has been ordered to reinstate an injured worker it sacked for being unfit for work, after its HR manager provided the CEO with "misconceived" advice.
