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An employee has won compensation for a psychological injury after a commission accepted she had been treated with hostility by workplace "factions" and criticised in "reply all" emails.

Since applying simplification principles to a time-intensive annual process, the "panic" it once provoked has eased, and employees report feeling "lighter", an HR leader says.

Five employees have failed to prove that their manager bullied them, with the Fair Work Commission commenting it is "appropriate to make allowances for some degree of exasperation or tension" in workplace interactions.

A company could potentially have avoided litigation if it had responded to a warning that its new employee was breaching his confidentiality and non-compete obligations to his former employer, a court has found.

An employer has defended an HR officer's allegations that its "toxic culture" and investigation failures amounted to a constructive dismissal, with a commission rejecting her claim for reinstatement.

A worker has unsuccessfully argued that she didn't "agree" to a new casual employment contract when she ticked a box saying she acknowledged its terms.

An employer did everything it could to find alternative suitable roles for an injured employee, the Fair Work Commission has found, ruling his dismissal was fair despite a procedural flaw.

Two employees have failed to win an injunction blocking their employer from dismissing them for misconduct, arguing they were targeted after campaigning for a new enterprise agreement.

An employer should have given a worker more than 24 hours to recover from her "heightened emotional state" after a threatening incident at work, rather than accepting her on-the-spot resignation, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Talent management leaders are under such pressure to deliver solutions quickly that many aren't properly identifying problems first, but there is a way to conduct root cause diagnosis quickly and simply, an expert says.