Returning to work after a pregnancy carries retention, safety and legal risks, but many employers fail to mitigate them, and in some cases exacerbate them, an HR professional warns.
A safety-critical employee, who turned up to work in an impaired and unfit state to perform his role, has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission his misconduct wasn't "serious" and he shouldn't have been summarily sacked.
When workplaces harness their "superpowers" of empathy, creativity, systems thinking and wisdom, employees over 50 offer "the ideal workforce for the modern world", a career coach says.
It wasn't unfair to dismiss an incapacitated employee without first trying to redeploy or rehabilitate him, the Fair Work Commission has found, given the "likely permanence" of his inability to perform any work.
An employee who saw negative feedback as a "fallacious, malicious and libellous" attack on her reputation is not entitled to compensation for a psychological injury, a commission has found.
It was fair to sack an employee who travelled overseas without approval to take annual leave, despite some shortfalls in the employer's process, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The humiliation of having to express bre-stmilk in a storeroom was "obvious", the Federal Circuit Court has ruled, in upholding an employee's discrimination and adverse action claims.
An HR manager who claimed to have "elevated" experience and the ability to "model proper workplace behaviours" had options other than quitting when she was upset by inappropriate workplace comments, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Even though most employers have come to see employee wellbeing as a shared responsibility, a key pillar is missing from their approach, a mindset specialist says.
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.
