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An employer that has recently embraced on-demand staffing says the approach has helped it to mitigate the risk of overstretching staff during workload peaks.

Two recent unfair dismissal rulings have put recruitment practices in the spotlight - one involving a misleading candidate, and another a selection panel conflict of interest.

Dismissing a sick employee who could not fulfil the inherent requirements of his role was unfair because it cut short the salary continuance provisions of his enterprise agreement, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employer that admitted to sacking an employee after having had "a gutful" of her poor attitude has been ordered to compensate her for unfair dismissal.

A managing director who criticised an employee in front of colleagues and referred to her boyfriend as a "party boy" overstepped the mark, but the behaviour wasn't bullying, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employer has been ordered to pay almost $600k to an employee who suffered PTSD after being violently assaulted by a work colleague.

An employee who was sacked for inappropriate behaviour and comments towards young female workers has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected in the Fair Work Commission.

Two years into its lean management strategy, efficiencies, quality of work and employee engagement continue to improve at Western Union, according to its APAC head of HR.

An employer has successfully argued that a sacked employee's true motivation in pursuing an unfair dismissal claim was to exact revenge on her manager.

The Fair Work Commission has upheld an employee's unfair dismissal claim, finding the employer failed to inform him of allegations prior to an investigation meeting, and chose its own support person for him.