An employee seeking to move her Saturday volunteering work to weekdays has been cleared to proceed with a dispute over the refusal of her flexible work request.
An employee who possessed "a fervent sense of justification" for harassing a manager and denigrating her employer on social media has lost her bid for reinstatement.
Employees' enthusiasm to get on board with automation and AI-based changes at work hinges on transparent communication by HR about the integration, says a workplace advisory expert.
It wasn't reasonable to transfer an employee accused of sexual harassment and ban him from speaking to female staff alone, a commission has found in a psychological injury appeal.
Since realising its job ads weren't appealing to female applicants, ANZ's technology division developed a workforce re-entry program that's attracting them in droves.
A worker's belief that managers and HR officers had bullied him was "largely based on speculation and suspicion", not evidence, although some of their actions were "not ideal", the Fair Work Commission has found.
It was "disingenuous" of an employer to claim it didn't dismiss a casual worker, after it removed her from an assignment due to misconduct allegations, then made no attempt to give her further shifts, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer was entitled to dismiss a worker for her "belligerent and disrespectful behaviour", but it denied her procedural fairness when one person acted as "judge, jury and executioner" during the disciplinary process, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
