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An HR officer who claimed she was forced to quit after being "instructed" to discriminate against women actually "misconstrued" the situation, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The Fair Work Commission has recommended an employer and employee show "leadership" to move away from their current flexible work stalemate, noting a "part way compromise is still better than nothing at all".

An employer made "very little attempt" to substantiate serious allegations against an employee, who had "perfectly plausible" reasons for her conduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A rotating panel of volunteer staff has become a much-tapped resource for devising, testing, implementing and evaluating a range of initiatives at Deloitte Australia, its chief people and purpose officer says.

A colleague's resignation threat was the "main driver" of an employee's dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found in awarding him maximum compensation.

The prospect of employee turnover that's too low is something "very few organisations have had to even think about", but concern appears to be growing among employers, an HR advisory leader says.

An employee who claimed his workplace absence was weaponised as a disciplinary threat to his whole team has lost his psychological injury claim, after a commission found the employer's warnings were "entirely reasonable".

An employee would have been better off admitting to workplace misconduct as a "brain fart" instead of denying he ever engaged in it, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding he was fairly sacked for vandalising client property.

Bad leadership is a critical problem right now, but it is partly due to an increasingly complex work environment, rather than "bad people", a workplace specialist says.

An employer's decision to retrench an HR consultant was an "egregious example of the unfair exercise of managerial prerogative", the Fair Work Commission has found, while criticising its HR leaders for their "disrespect".