An employer followed its enterprise agreement "unconsciously rather than deliberately" in deciding whether to make a role redundant, but its decision was nonetheless valid, the Federal Court has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has criticised an HR director's entirely email-based disciplinary process, in finding an employee was unfairly dismissed for his disrespectful "tone".
After moving communications from quarterly town halls to weekly briefings, Bpay's HR team has much better insights about the business and its employees, its chief people leader says.
An employer had no choice but to remove an employee from a client's site, but its communication failures made the dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A employee sacked for social media breaches has won a rehearing of her dispute, after the initial judge failed to give detailed reasons for dismissing her claim.
Employee data has prompted a tech giant to offer five days of 'life leave', and a weekly break from scheduled meetings, to its continuously evolving wellness strategy.
An employer must compensate a manager it sacked for s-xually harassing a customer, after the Fair Work Commission found its dismissal process was "procedurally disastrous".
LGBTI+ employees are twice as likely to be victims of workplace discrimination compared to other employees, new research indicates, and the key to combatting this is to go beyond policies, a senior HR leader 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.
