An employee's request to work remotely wasn't validly made, in part because it failed to explain how the arrangement related to her condition, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A "bullish and intimidating" response to an employee's absence was just one example of an employer's unreasonable conduct, which ultimately forced him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
After setting a goal of having at least one mental health first aid officer on every site, an employer has made mental health conversations a seamless part of its culture, and says this helps to "insulate" employees from their psychologically challenging work.
Subjecting an employee to a four-year disciplinary process, and expecting him to respond to allegations dating back to 2015, wasn't unfair or unreasonable, a commission has ruled.
A culture of endless striving without periods of consolidation is one of the two root causes of today's exhausted and ineffective workforce, a leadership specialist says.
A transgender employee has successfully claimed his employer discriminated against him, after it stored his former name and allowed it to be disclosed during internal recruitment processes.
Even if a senior manager objected to a proposed secondment, he wasn't exercising a workplace complaint or enquiry, so his dismissal wasn't unlawful adverse action, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employer has failed to overturn a reinstatement order for an employee sacked for a positive cannabis test, with a Fair Work Commission full bench rejecting that the ruling cast doubt on the validity of workplace D&A policies more broadly.
Requiring an employee to adhere to her performance improvement plan "to the letter" was "so lacking in fairness and flexibility" that it wasn't objectively reasonable, a commission has ruled in psychological injury proceedings.
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