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The former CEO of Harrier Group was summarily dismissed for deliberately misusing her work credit card while the company was struggling financially, not because she raised bullying and pay issues, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.

It's easy to respond to stress unthinkingly, but the simple act of encouraging employees to consider what they need can help them to be less reactive in the moment, a performance expert says.

An employee's "severe error in judgement" in attending work while intoxicated outweighed his employer's "meaningful failure" to check on his welfare after sending him home, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The single most impactful thing hybrid leaders can do is to create "glue" in workplaces, by "sticking together, bonding and fusing talented people", a leadership expert says.

"Coworker quality" has recently become a much more important driver for employees making decisions about leaving and joining organisations, new research shows.

An employer has convinced a commission there are "no reasonable means by which it can create a role that a man can perform", and has been granted an exemption from discrimination laws.

A team leader who choked a colleague and threatened to kill another after they "provoked" him was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, rejecting that his actions were a "fight or flight" response and therefore justified.

An employer was entitled to dismiss an employee who committed safety breaches to provoke a reaction from colleagues and then threw an "adult tantrum" when they called him out on it, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Many teams are simmering in "artificial harmony" because their leaders don't know how to address "healthy disagreements", a workplace expert says.

A tribunal has criticised Australia Post for its "witch hunt" of an impressionable worker, whose psychological injury stemmed from bored colleagues making jokes at her expense.