'Part-time flex' employment is being proposed in this week's IR omnibus bill, while other newly announced measures include a criminal offence of wage theft, and extending pandemic-related flexibilities.
The Fair Work Commission has accepted an employer's claim that its procedural failures when dismissing an underperforming manager didn't matter to the usual degree, because he had completed the minimum employment period only 11 hours earlier.
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An employee who was "coasting along" under a remote manager has successfully challenged his dismissal, on the basis he was never properly warned that his performance wasn't up to scratch.
A manager should have better controlled his "easily triggered" temper, the Fair Work Commission has said in upholding his dismissal for verbally abusing a female colleague.
Making employment laws fit for purpose will require much more than "tweaks", and already there appears to be a lost opportunity for input beyond the "usual suspects" with entrenched views, an IR heavyweight says.
An employee's opportunity to respond before he was sacked for serious misconduct was too "narrow in scope", an FWC full bench has ruled, while nonetheless upholding the dismissal as fair.
Two managers could have handled certain situations better, according to the Fair Work Commission, but it has stopped short of granting stop-bullying orders to an employee who claimed he was "insulted and humiliated" by them.
The fact that a psychological assessment process lacked transparency was not enough to render an employee's dismissal unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting an employee's appeal.
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