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It "defies belief" that an employer would defend a consultation process as "best practice", when it involved informing a manager of his termination during an impromptu coffee meeting in a busy street, according to a tribunal.

An employer didn't act "with undue haste" regarding a worker whose visa renewal arrived just days after he was sacked for not having Australian work rights, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

It's a common mistake to call leaders a "team" when they function as a group, and the opportunity cost is significant, a behavioural scientist and leadership coach warns.

The Fair Work Commission has used a "rarely exercised" power to revoke an unfair dismissal ruling it made in an employee's favour, after finding she misled both her employer and the tribunal.

Employers should be preparing now for an exodus of tenured executives in the near future, an advisor to CHROs says.

As awareness around psychosocial safety grows, more employers are investing in risk prevention at crucial times of workplace change, according to a psychologist.

An employer wasn't obligated to provide a detailed employment contract for a "directly comparable" redeployment opportunity, the Fair Work Commission has found, in ruling it fulfilled its consultation requirements and the redundancy was genuine.

After an employer gave undertakings to keep an employee separate from his alleged bullies, and in circumstances where he seemed unlikely to return to work anyway, it wasn't wrong for the Fair Work Commission to dismiss his stop-bullying application, a full bench has ruled.

Despite maintaining that lying would be an "affront to his faith", an employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he was falsely accused of misconduct.

An employee who won $20k for unfair dismissal has tried to argue his compensation should have been higher, and that his employer should have been penalised for "lying and exaggerating" in its evidence.