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Conversations about disconnecting from work after hours are important to ensure compliance with the law, but managers should be having them anyway, a communications expert says.

An employee who was absent for two-thirds of a year was not entitled to "unfettered" access to unpaid leave, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A manager who unsuccessfully claimed his employer had repudiated his employment contract has failed to convince a full bench of the Fair Work Commission that granting him leave to appeal is in the public interest.

An overworked HR leader has won her unfair dismissal claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding summary dismissal was a disproportionate response to her allegedly unreasonable workplace behaviour.

Many employees are now rushing to meet year-end targets while juggling holiday preparations and family commitments, and if they don't pace themselves, their health and work will both suffer, a wellness specialist says.

An employer had "every right" to sack a worker who refused to update her training, but it chose not to do so, the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting her unfair dismissal claim.

When an employer failed to communicate its retirement policy to an employee until after it found his replacement, in effect it unfairly dismissed him, according to the Fair Work Commission.

Westpac gave an employee ample warning that she might not receive any redundancy pay if she didn't take up the "identical" role it offered her, the Fair Work Commission has found, in reducing her entitlement from $11,245 to zero.

Blocking out unauthorised time in her calendar and using a "workaround" instead of established process didn't justify dismissal, but an employee went too far when she ignored policies and put clients at risk, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Many employees are dissatisfied with their health but keen to improve it, according to new research that means employers can focus less on "the biggest challenge" of motivating people, and more on helping them to act, a wellness specialist says.