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.
When complying with a third-party directive to exclude a worker from a site, commercial considerations don't outweigh the need for a procedurally fair process, a new unfair dismissal claim "demonstrates very clearly".
A general manager's communication with a CEO didn't reflect "respect, subordination and trust", but it wasn't misconduct that justified his dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer was entitled to sack an employee for his "repeated poor performance, bad punctuality and unexplained absenteeism", but its procedural failings made the dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer viewed a leader's actions in a "sinister" light when they were "readily capable" of having an innocent explanation, the Federal Court has ruled in awarding him $130k for unlawful adverse action.
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.
