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Increasing employee demands and expectations associated with the 'me economy' are understandable, but they're also unsustainable, according to a workplace culture specialist.

An employer's decision to sack an employee who refused to attend independent medical examinations was valid, but characterising her behaviour as serious misconduct was harsh in the circumstances, according to the Fair Work Commission.

Placing an employee on his second performance improvement plan didn't amount to a constructive dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

It was reasonable for an employer to refuse a fully-remote flexible work request, the Fair Work Commission has found, in ordering a compromise agreement.

It was reasonable to ask an employee to take a D&A test after he was reported behaving erratically at work, a commission has ruled in rejecting his psychological injury claim.

A manager who provided "harrowing" descriptions of feeling degraded after experiencing homophobic comments and s-xual harassment at work has been awarded $116k in compensation and penalties by the Federal Circuit Court.

It would be "much simpler" to consider abandonment of employment as falling within the definition of dismissal under the Fair Work Act, instead of applying the "complicated contractual concept of renunciation", according to a Fair Work Commission member.

The upside is clear when AI makes teams more productive, but leadership experts are warning of bottlenecks shifting, and managers "drowning in decisions".

An employee's flexible work request was sufficiently related to his age, the Fair Work Commission has found, in rejecting he was seeking "open-ended optimisation of his working arrangements" rather than transitioning to retirement.

The best-performing organisations don't cut costs and headcounts reactively, but rather build a culture where reviewing and adjusting resources is an "ongoing discipline and expectation", research shows.