An employee who was banned from a client's premises after he allegedly called one of its female employees a "c-nt" was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Substantiating a formal complaint against an employee who had no opportunity to respond was more than a "mere blemish" in a disciplinary process, a commission has ruled in upholding her psychological injury claim.
Two instances of unreasonable conduct by an HR leader and supervisor were "disparate" in nature and didn't constitute bullying, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Analytics, AI and automation might not be HR's "natural habitat", but with training and support to take some myth out of it, they can experiment and optimise "moments that matter", says a transformation expert.
An HR manager has been criticised for failing to investigate an employee's bullying and abuse claims, after she instead collected misconduct evidence to support the employee's dismissal.
HR has a "tendency to overcomplicate things", when its policies and procedures could be much simpler, an examination of workplace culture issues at a major bank suggests.
An employer that opted for a 'no rules' approach to hybrid work has since found employees want more structure and guidance around what is expected of them in new ways of working.
An employee who claimed she was constructively dismissed because she couldn't return to full-time work after parental leave "cut short" her options by resigning, the Fair Work Commission has found.
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.
