The Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to reinstate an employee whose role was made redundant, after slamming its consultation failures and "shoddy" record-keeping.
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An employer's application to reduce its liability to pay redundancy entitlements to 125 former employees has failed. Meanwhile, an employee's redundancy was not prompted by his intention to claim workers' compensation, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer has successfully argued it owed an HR employee no redundancy payment, with the Fair Work Commission accepting she "jumped the gun" when she resigned without properly considering a redeployment offer.
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The Fair Work Commission has "regained its senses" in ruling that employees' prior periods of casual or seasonal work should not be included in their redundancy pay calculations, workplace lawyers say.
An employer's redeployment offer to an employee was unacceptable, the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting its application to reduce his 16 weeks' redundancy pay to zero.
An employer has been ordered to compensate an employee for unfair dismissal, after the Fair Work Commission found it relied on a flawed skills matrix in making a highly skilled employee redundant.
An employee has failed to prove his redundancy was not genuine, despite the Fair Work Commission finding HR could have done more to canvass redeployment options with him.
In two new redundancy decisions, the Fair Work Commission has found HR wasn't obligated to inform an employee about subsidiary vacancies it was unaware of, and has approved an 85 per cent reduction in an employee's entitlement.
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