Two managers treated an employee in a "high handed, hostile way", manifesting in an unfair disciplinary process, the Federal Court has found in upholding her adverse action claim.
Getting people back to the office is challenging even for employers recognised as 'best places to work', according to a CEO who is experimenting with new ways to reconnect employees.
An employee must acknowledge a colleague's "distressful experience" in writing, and refrain from discussing a video of her, as part of consent orders handed down in response to a s-xual harassment application.
A commission has found an employee's attempt to "gee up" a subordinate was not trivial and couldn't go unpunished, even though he wasn't trying to be malicious or aggressive.
A "missing link" in many organisations, regardless of size, is adequate visibility on workforce capability, according to an expert who says the problem is becoming more urgent.
A failed discrimination claimant described as "Australia's unluckiest job applicant" has been ordered to pay an employer $44k in costs, after a commission found his allegations were "unreasonable and capricious".
Redeployment offers do not need to be "identical" but rather "sufficiently comparable" to a redundant role, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in reducing an employee's redundancy payout by 50%.
An HR manager deliberately attempted to avoid paying an employee his correct entitlements by falsely accusing him of poor performance and then sacking him, a tribunal has ruled in fining an employer $104k.
An employee who was threatened by a colleague and asked to accept a transfer was not bullied, the Fair Work Commission has found, ruling these were understandable responses to the employee's own inappropriate behaviour.
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