An employee made a "conscious decision" to perform his safety-critical role despite taking drugs a few days earlier, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in upholding his dismissal.
Trust and psychological safety are often used synonymously when discussing workplace culture, but actually describe two different scenarios in a team, a leadership expert says.
An employee who allegedly made inappropriate comments to a member of the public and touched her hair has failed to prove her accusations were so vague as to render his dismissal unfair.
It was "easy" to see why an employee believed she had been targeted for disciplinary action, but she was ultimately the "author of her own misfortunes", a court has found in rejecting her adverse action claim.
Reactivating a finalised harassment complaint against an employee may well be substantively unfair, but it wasn't procedurally unfair according to an employer's enterprise agreement, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A labour hire company has been ordered to compensate a retrenched worker after the Fair Work Commission found its consultation failures made his dismissal unfair.
The action taken by "frustrated" managers was not always perfect, but it was still reasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in dismissing a stop-bullying application.
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