A BHP employee who was sacked after conducting an airport prank and posing in uniform for an inappropriate photo will receive compensation, after her employer failed to follow its own disciplinary process.
An employee dismissed by text message has been awarded maximum compensation. Also in this article, a worker has failed in his application for stop-bullying orders before he returns to work; employers criticise proposed religious freedom laws; and more.
A senior employee who was sacked after he inflicted physical pain on new recruits without their consent has been reinstated, with a tribunal accepting he didn't intend them harm.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to reinstate a worker sacked for misconduct, finding it applied its processes inconsistently and subjected her to an "unjustified level of scrutiny".
The Fair Work Commission has criticised an employer's opaque decision-making process, while upholding the dismissal of an employee for serious misconduct.
An employee's difficult personal circumstances made her employer's formal response to her workplace behaviour issues "excessive", a tribunal has upheld on appeal.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld an employee's sacking for misconduct including aggression towards co-workers and misusing a company credit card, despite finding his employer exaggerated some of the allegations against him.
An employee who threatened a "media nightmare", after his employer refused to fly him home while he was distressed, was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee who wrote "load of crap" on his performance review and told his superiors to "shut the f-ck up" in a meeting has been awarded compensation for a harsh dismissal.
