The Fair Work Commission has ordered the reinstatement of an employee who was sacked for breaching his employer's code of conduct after being convicted of drink driving.
An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that he didn't take a breathalyser test before starting work due to COVID concerns, then didn't pass it because he'd consumed throat lozenges.
An employer unlawfully dismissed a former HR manager after its new managing director took issue with her "perfectly plausible" work and acted on a misunderstanding, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employee's numerous instances of misconduct outweighed a procedural flaw in her dismissal, but her employer overstepped in sacking her without notice, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld as fair the dismissal of an employee who had a "cavalier" attitude to using a workplace account to fund her coffee habit.
An employee was fairly sacked for repeated inappropriate and harassing workplace behaviour, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, rejecting that the incidents were simply "disagreements".
An employer has failed to convince a Fair Work Commission full bench that an employee had a duty to be honest during an investigation into his out-of-hours fight with a colleague.
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A manager's inappropriate conduct and poor attitude negatively impacted an employer's reputation and profitability, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in upholding his dismissal.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
