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Female employees should not have to tell their older superiors that they don't want to be sent salacious texts, the Fair Work Commission has stressed, in finding an employee's dismissal for sending "sexually loaded" messages to colleagues was fair.

A recent high-profile MP resignation has put candidate fraud back in the spotlight, and a lawyer suggests employers are overlooking some simple ways to protect against it.

An employee made false bullying allegations to deflect attention from her own behaviour, and was the "foolish and misguided choreographer of [her] own downfall", the Fair Work Commission has found in ruling her dismissal was fair.

Any HR team undergoing a digital transformation must allocate significant effort to building new data "habits", or risk undermining the entire project, according to MLC Life Insurance's head of organisational development.

The Fair Work Commission has accepted an employee told his manager to "f-ck off" without any reasonable justification, but found the "indecent haste" of his dismissal rendered it unfair.

An employee who slept on the job was unfairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, after finding the employer "blindsided" her during the workplace investigation.

In two new redundancy decisions, the Fair Work Commission has found HR wasn't obligated to inform an employee about subsidiary vacancies it was unaware of, and has approved an 85 per cent reduction in an employee's entitlement.

An employer that sacked a manager for his "problematic" communication style without prior formal warnings has been ordered to compensate him for unfair dismissal.

Managers have largely moved on from the days of seeing flexible work as a special entitlement, but could still be less rigid about the arrangements on offer, according to flexible work ambassadors.

An HR manager's failure to investigate an employee's complaints about his performance management made his dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.