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Three months was a "reasonable" amount of time to wait and see if an employee recovered from a psychological injury so he could return to work, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.

The Federal Court has increased an employee's damages for age discrimination from $20k to $90k, and added an order for economic loss, after finding he had suffered "considerable loss of amenity of life".

The "bamboo ceiling" is alive and well in many organisations across Australia, and one way to break through it is for employers to build their cultural intelligence or "CQ", an inclusion leader says.

An employee's comments to a colleague "under the guise of humour" went "far beyond simply swearing" and amounted to s-xual harassment, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employee who claimed he was screamed at and bullied by managers has lost his constructive dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission ruling that his resignation was an "overreaction" to the circumstances.

A director who became "erratic and abusive" after a workplace relationship broke down has lost his unfair dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding the employer exhausted all other avenues before making its decision.

HR professionals have a major opportunity to shift from being "solely customers" to "actual co-designers" of the ways artificial intelligence is used in workplace decisions, a researcher says.

The fact that an employee's resignation coincided with another company's job offer undermined the "multiplicity of reasons" he gave to support his constructive dismissal claim, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Many employers jumping on the four-day week "bandwagon" are ignoring what made initial trials successful: an individual approach to flexibility, an expert says.

An employer's failure to investigate alleged misconduct at a client site "heavily contributed" to an employee's unfair dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.