Having one member of a small team repeatedly fail to meet project timelines was "a situation that any business would need to address", the Fair Work Commission has noted in rejecting an employee's stop-bullying claim.
One strong focus area can be much more effective than a raft of well-intentioned programs when it comes to wellbeing, people leaders at an award-winning law firm say.
An employee's attempt to expose a public figure's "coercive control" amounted to serious and sackable misconduct, but summary dismissal was too harsh a sanction, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer wasn't "disingenuous or tokenistic" in offering to find further engagements for an employee it removed from a client's site, the Fair Work Commission has accepted in dismissing his claim.
An underperforming employee has failed to prove he was forced to resign, with the Fair Work Commission accepting his manager was genuinely trying to "get the best out of him".
A "technical perfect storm" has decoupled wage growth from hiring demand, and if left unaddressed it will potentially have dire consequences for employers, an academic says.
A WHS specialist who refused to give her employer documents stored on her laptop because she was on sick leave was "otherwise capable of sending multiple emails", the Fair Work Commission has noted in upholding her dismissal.
An employer has been ordered to pay a manager more than $2.25 million in compensation, penalties and costs after its CEO "effectively destroyed" her life.
Minor workplace grievances are increasingly building to an "explosion" point because employees aren't equipped to tackle them early, and hybrid working is pouring fuel on this fire, a conflict expert says.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
