Reinstating an employee accused of misconduct would "in no way" undermine an employer's capacity to comply with its safety obligations, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled in rejecting an unfair dismissal appeal.
An employer was entitled to transfer a "socially inept" employee to a different workplace 350km away after finding he bullied a female colleague, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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.
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.
A Fair Work Commissioner's tolerance for a sacked employee "evaporated" when she failed to meet relevant case deadlines, and he said her lack of attention to detail supported her employer's many dismissal reasons.
An employer's failure to intervene with mediation in a workplace conflict that culminated in an employee's sacking didn't make his dismissal unfair, a commission has found.
Conversations about employee misbehaviour and misconduct are typically not handled well, or avoided altogether, because they're "hard", but this only causes issues to escalate, a communications expert warns.
It was fair to sack a worker who created a psychosocial safety risk by sending threatening and belittling texts after hours to his manager, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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.
For too long, leaders have treated misbehaviour and misconduct as separate to performance issues at work, but "the world is waking up", a communication specialist says.
