A Fair Work Commission full bench has rejected an employee's unfair dismissal appeal, despite finding a Commissioner was wrong to "protect" him by refusing to admit certain medical evidence in the original hearing.
Where employees' personality traits can impact the quality of work, workplace factors can also drive personality changes, and this has significant implications for managing talent, researchers say.
An employee subject to an injunction has been further restrained from trying to solicit employees away from a workplace relations advisor to a potential competitor.
Overhauling performance management to focus on "really great conversations" and agile goals has had an overwhelming response from employees while allowing HR to cast off its image as "performance police", an HR leader says.
An employee who said she'd escalate allegations of s-xual harassment if her employer wouldn't sign a deed of release didn't repudiate her employment contract, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employee who admitted to making errors in her work even after receiving a final warning did not receive "explicit and plain and clear enough" notice to make her dismissal fair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer had valid reason to sack a worker who tried to delete its Facebook page and behaved aggressively towards colleagues, but its process was so deficient it couldn't be called "fair", the FWC has found.
An employer that handed off administrative HR tasks to 'digital workers' now has a more engaged and strategic HR team, with thousands of hours freed up to work on projects they never had time for previously.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected that an employee was targeted for redundancy because of his workplace safety activities, finding his evidence "inconceivable", "speculative" and "weak".
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