Employers shouldn't proceed towards dismissal as if "all bets are off" once an employee has exceeded the Fair Work Act's temporary absence threshold, the Fair Work Commission has warned.
An employer's failure to appropriately accommodate an injured employee's restrictions upon her return to work caused her to suffer a compensable psychological injury, a tribunal has found.
It was "hypercritical" of an HR practitioner to characterise an employee's allegations against his manager as "misleading", when the facts underpinning them were essentially true, the Fair Work Commission has found.
It was fair to dismiss an employee who didn't return to work for 15 months after making a s-xual harassment complaint, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A Philippines-based contract worker has been cleared to pursue a general protections claim, with the Fair Work Commission finding she was an "Australian-based employee".
An employee's complaints against two colleagues weren't covered by the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions, and his dismissal wasn't unlawful, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
Interactions between a "bad tempered" manager and "difficult" supervisor were "a mutually driven personality clash" rather than bullying, a court has found in rejecting a $6.8 million damages claim, with costs.
A commission has rejected that an employer's disciplinary process was reasonable, finding it took the "drastic" step of suspending a manager before adequately investigating the misconduct allegations against him.
The faults in an employer's disciplinary process were "not mere blemishes" but rather "substantial flaws that rendered the process unfair", the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employee's requested flexible working arrangement was completely misaligned with peak demand for the work she performed, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.
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