A popular employee who worked as an informal advocate for others has failed to convince a court that his redundancy was actually unlawful adverse action.
An employee who was sacked for misconduct that occurred while he was off duty has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission his dismissal was unfair.
Encouraging employees to take a break before September is vital to maintaining employee performance through the remainder of 2020 and reducing the PTSD-like impact of the pandemic, an advisor says.
The Fair Work Commission has found two employees were unfairly dismissed for making s-xual comments about a female colleague over a workplace chat system, ruling only one message breached its policies.
Urgency drives how work is done and it can help to get more done faster, but often causes inefficient use of time and resources, says a productivity expert.
An employer "overplayed its hand" when issuing a JobKeeper-enabling direction that reduced an employee's hours by 40%, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
In this redundancy update, an employer has to pay redundancy entitlements after reduced an employee's hours; an employee is denied relief after he "effectively sat on his hands" during the redeployment process; and two employers lose their applications to reduce redundancy payouts.
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