A manager has claimed he suffered a psychological injury after a social media "debate" made him think it would be "impossible" to avoid conflict at work.
Apps utilising deepfake technology can be used for harmless fun, but they can also create content that might damage an organisation's reputation, or humiliate an employee, a lawyer says.
Sharing offensive material with colleagues on social media was "abject stupidity", a Fair Work Commission full bench has found, but the conduct wasn't sufficiently connected to work to justify dismissal.
An employee who live-streamed her participation in an anti-lockdown protest has failed to convince a commission that her dismissal was harsh because several mitigating factors "clouded" her judgement.
An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that he didn't deserve to be dismissed because his numerous Facebook friend requests and unsolicited messages to a young female colleague were actually from his seven-year-old son.
The Federal Court has ordered the reinstatement of an employee sacked for making "deliberately provocative" social media posts, but declined to order damages for distress, finding he didn't appear to be "an individual whose feelings might easily be hurt".
An employee's "vile and racist" social media posts were anonymous enough not to be a sackable offence, but his "violent takedown" of another person warranted his dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer has failed to defend sacking a worker who made "s-xist, misogynist and racist" posts in a private Facebook group, after the Fair Work Commission found it treated him "substantially differently" to a colleague.
An employee who created a private Facebook group where colleagues would "take the p-ss" out of each other and share inappropriate content has failed to prove his dismissal for posting p-rnographic videos was unfair.
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