A dispute over whether a worker was an employee or a contractor illustrates how some of the recent Fair Work Act amendments can be particularly complex to apply in practice, a lawyer says.
It was fair to dismiss a manager who made disrespectful comments to and about her colleagues, using terms that included "bitch", "lazy" and "pit bull", the Fair Work Commission has found.
Business leaders have an even greater impact on attrition than line managers, and leadership transitions can jeopardise retention to a significant degree, new data shows.
Errors made by a professional were not reasonable conduct, but fell short of "data manipulation" and didn't warrant summary dismissal, according to the Fair Work Commission.
An employer has to pay $90k in damages, and it has six months to produce a policy on expressing milk at work, after a tribunal found it discriminated against a breastfeeding mother.
The problem of trauma that's "vicarious" or "indirect" has long been considered a personal one, but a new report warns employers to focus more on their systems, and place less emphasis on individual self-care.
Reorganising a workplace so an employee could safely perform duties would have represented a "transformation of his substantive position", rather than a reasonable adjustment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Many of the Fair Work Act's amendments are "working as intended", a review has found, but its draft report suggests the list of employees' "protected attributes" could potentially be expanded, and fixed-term contract limits warrant further reform.
It was wrong of an employee not to correct her employer's false assumption about her qualifications, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding her dismissal.
An employee's bid to reopen his unfair dismissal case, so he could publicly raise "scandalous" allegations against his former employer, has been rejected by the Fair Work Commission.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
Recent events have shone a spotlight on whistleblowing, placing employers firmly on notice that their response to a protected disclosure could be subject to intense scrutiny. Watch this webcast to understand the role HR plays in this challenging space.
