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An employee has failed to convince a court her employer was involved in organised crime and discriminated against her because she was "white, non-Muslim, female and mature".

An employer has updated its social media policy to specifically address posts made anonymously or under a pseudonym, after a "trolling" employee prompted an investigation into its practices.

An employee who claimed his employer exploited his disability at work has failed to prove his dismissal was unlawful, after a court accepted he struggled to follow reasonable directions.

An employer has failed to win interim restraints against three former employees, with a court finding their "know-how" didn't fall within its available protections.

An employer took reasonable steps to determine whether an employee was medically exempt from wearing face masks at work and wasn't "unnecessarily combative" in enforcing its policy, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

It was "unfortunate" that an employee waited so long to lodge a stop-bullying application given the behaviour of his peers fell "well short of appropriate workplace conduct", the Fair Work Commission has said.

The fact an employee was unlikely to regain fitness for work did not entitle an employer to drop him "like a hot potato" after he ran out of paid leave, the Fair Work Commission has chided.

An employer has been cleared to pursue disciplinary action against an employee after a commission rejected it was discriminating against him because he was a male domestic violence victim.

An employer that suspected an employee planned to misuse its confidential information failed to afford him procedural fairness and must compensate him for unfair dismissal.

An employer had a valid reason to sack a worker whose repeated inappropriate and unprofessional behaviour made the employment relationship untenable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.