An employee was sacked for using a derogatory term he'd never heard of, based on the evidence of a coworker with a "dead-set agenda" against him, the Fair Work Commission has found.
It was highly unlikely an employee would have been sacked if her employer had afforded her "basic procedural fairness", the Fair Work Commission has ruled, in awarding her maximum compensation for unfair dismissal.
A Fair Work Commission member was wrong to find an employee didn't breach the 'professional boundaries' provisions in a code of conduct because his behaviour wasn't sexual, a full bench has ruled.
An employee has won compensation for unfair dismissal, after the Fair Work Commission found he was warned about failing to provide notice of his absences, but not more broadly about his attendance issues.
An employer has been cleared to investigate an employee's out-of-hours conduct, after the Fair Work Commission accepted it held genuine concerns about suffering reputational harm.
It was "extraordinarily insensitive" to tell an employee to be "inclusive of all opinions", including racist ones, the Fair Work Commission has found in unfair dismissal proceedings.
An employee whose general protections claim was struck out as an abuse of process has won leave to appeal, after the Federal Circuit Court accepted his contentions of bias had sufficient prospects of success.
A "most unsatisfactory" approach to substantiating misconduct allegations has resulted in unfair dismissal compensation for an employee, whose aggressive behaviour caused a P&C manager to take stress leave.
It wasn't reasonable for an employer to rely on a manager's "eyewitness" account of a workplace assault, given he then "took absolutely no action, and continued on with the working day", a commissioner has ruled.
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