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It was unfair for an employer to stand one employee down entirely while keeping other workers on full-time hours, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employer that made an employee's role redundant after consulting with her for 15 minutes has been ordered to compensate her for unfair dismissal.

Imposing "the whole burden" of a group's reduced hours on one full-time employee was not a legal stand down, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A popular employee who worked as an informal advocate for others has failed to convince a court that his redundancy was actually unlawful adverse action.

In this redundancy update, an employer has to pay redundancy entitlements after reduced an employee's hours; an employee is denied relief after he "effectively sat on his hands" during the redeployment process; and two employers lose their applications to reduce redundancy payouts.

Two employers have failed to convince a Federal Court full bench that employees weren't entitled to redundancy pay because their dismissals were due to "ordinary" turnover of labour following a contract loss.

The High Court has updated and publicised its s-xual harassment policies in the wake of findings against a former judge. Also in this article, Western Australia's new IR bill; an employee retrenched at the height of COVID-19 who saw her employer advertising jobs weeks later can claim unfair dismissal; and more.

The Fair Work Commission is handling increasing numbers of redundancy disputes, and this round-up includes a failure to consult, applications to reduce entitlements, and a claim that redundancy was actually adverse action.

The Fair Work Commission has found an employer fabricated evidence to defend an unfair dismissal claim from an employee whose role was made redundant just days after a positive performance meeting.