An employer has successfully defended sacking an employee for breaching its code of conduct, after he was found guilty of a sexual offence outside working hours.
An employee's partner failed her "spectacularly" in his role as support person and caused her to be unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A commissioner has been left "perplexed" as to why an employee didn't complain to HR about his role changing, in rejecting that he was constructively dismissed.
An employer could not claim that it was exempt from redundancy consultation requirements because it had no input into or control over the decision, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Openpay has completely shifted away from its pre-COVID, nine-to-five work model, using creative solutions to combat some of hybrid working's biggest challenges.
An employee's bullying behaviour towards a colleague wasn't just "robust banter" typical to the workplace culture, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.
An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that COVID-19 rendered his sales targets unachievable and that he shouldn't have been dismissed for poor performance.
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.
