An employer isn't liable to compensate an employee who suffered a psychological injury after being informed of an "inappropriate behaviour" complaint against him, a tribunal has affirmed.
An employee's misconduct didn't involve "innocuous indiscretions", as he claimed, but rather a pattern of inappropriate and careless behaviour, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in unfair dismissal proceedings.
An employee was "playing games" with his employer when he ignored its messages and refused to comply with directions, the Fair Work Commission has found, in ruling he was fairly sacked for misconduct.
There was "no element of capriciousness involved" when an employer reduced an employee's hours, the Fair Work Commission has found in stop-bullying proceedings.
When social media posts caused an employer to doubt the validity of an employee's personal leave, it was entitled to seek further information, a commission has ruled in discrimination proceedings.
It wasn't reasonable to require an employee to "identify feelings within himself and how they may present in others" as part of a performance improvement plan, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in unfair dismissal proceedings.
Failing to give an employee even a "brief opportunity" to provide evidence of her current and future fitness for work made her dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Dismissing an employee over the phone before the end of his performance improvement plan was fair, the Fair Work Commission has found, in circumstances where he hadn't ever met his sales targets.
Advising a talent manager "in a totally ad hoc fashion" that his role was becoming redundant "only served to further destabilise his already unstable mental state", a commission has found in a psychological injury dispute.
A commission has refused to strike out parts of a worker's stop-bullying claim, despite accepting some of the alleged conduct didn't occur while she was "at work".
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