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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.
An employer that attempted to add "crude" manual labour to a white-collar worker's role has failed in its appeal against paying his redundancy entitlements.
An employer that dismissed a worker the day after he accused it of underpaying him has convinced the Federal Circuit Court it didn't take unlawful adverse action against him.
An HR business partner did not "seriously" consider an employee's proposals to avoid redundancy, the Fair Work Commission has found in ruling the employer didn't meet its consultation obligations.
The Federal Court has rejected an employer's claim that 14 employees weren't entitled to redundancy pay because their dismissals were due to the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour".
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