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A manager who claimed his employer could have prevented his redundancy by running its business more efficiently has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he was effectively dismissed.

More employers are now recognising the cost and branding benefits of using redeployment programs, instead of exiting talent from redundant roles, a transitions advisor says.

A Federal Court judge has called for employees to be better educated about their rights upon termination, in rejecting a dismissal claim wrongly pursued under general protections laws by a "confused" employee.

"Significant fluctuations" in an employee's enthusiasm for redeployment were more problematic than minor flaws in his employer's processes, the Fair Work Commission has found, accepting his redundancy was genuine.

The Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to pay redundancy entitlements to an employee who successfully argued a redeployment offer would have an "unreasonable impact" on her daily commute.

Salary projections for top HR managers are as much as $50k higher than a year ago, according to Robert Half's 2019 guide. Also in this article, the FWC has rejected that a casual employee's dismissal was a genuine redundancy; and more.

The Fair Work Commission has rejected an employee's claim that an HR manager adopted a "tick and flick" approach to her redundancy because of a heavy workload.

An employer's bid to reduce an employee's redundancy entitlements has failed, after the Fair Work Commission found its "numerous" discussions about alternative employment never crystallised into a formal offer.

An employer should have managed its chief financial officer's poor performance before making his role redundant, a tribunal has ruled in awarding him compensation for a panic disorder.

In a case that illustrates the importance of giving employees timely, accurate information in writing about major workplace changes, a redundancy that occurred for legitimate reasons has been deemed an unfair dismissal.