Misconduct | Page 57 (788 items)

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.

A disgruntled employee who vented about her employer on Facebook was harshly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

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.

The Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of an employee based on "damning" CCTV footage, but nevertheless reproached the employer for "turning a blind eye" to other workplace problems.

An employer had a valid reason to dismiss an employee, but failing to refer to it in his termination letter rendered its actions unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.