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An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that a manager's email celebrating his impending dismissal was evidence that an investigation into his conduct had been predetermined.

The Fair Work Commission has criticised an employer's opaque decision-making process, while upholding the dismissal of an employee for serious misconduct.

Medibank has overhauled its employment brand to shift traditional perceptions of the company as being just a private health insurer.

An employee's difficult personal circumstances made her employer's formal response to her workplace behaviour issues "excessive", a tribunal has upheld on appeal.

An employer committed unlawful adverse action when it "went looking" for reasons to dismiss an employee after he complained about his performance management process.

An employer has successfully defended sacking a worker who violated its safety policies, despite its earlier "lax approach" to enforcement.

HR functions will become a limiting factor for businesses if they do not effectively harness emerging technologies to counter the challenging labour market, according to a Gartner expert.

An employer took unlawful adverse action when it actively sought to 'manage out' an employee by making her position redundant, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.

An appeal tribunal has found an employee was unfairly dismissed for taking an overseas holiday while absent from work on sick leave.