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A Federal Court full bench has labelled a senior employee's "romantic" pursuit of a colleague as "conduct of the most reprehensible kind", in dismissing his appeal against a $170k damages order.

An employer that made an employee's role redundant after consulting with her for 15 minutes has been ordered to compensate her for unfair dismissal.

The Fair Work Commission has slammed an employer's "manifestly inadequate" HR practices, after finding an employee was forced to resign because his bullying complaints weren't taken seriously.

An employer has failed to block a HR manager's claim that it took adverse action against her in exposing her to liability for underpaying employees; and another employer has been fined for "very serious" Fair Work breaches.

An employer has failed to block an unfair dismissal claim from a casual, who it believed had resigned during a heated conversation about his four-month absence.

Imposing "the whole burden" of a group's reduced hours on one full-time employee was not a legal stand down, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A popular employee who worked as an informal advocate for others has failed to convince a court that his redundancy was actually unlawful adverse action.

An employer's poor handling of s-xual harassment allegations has cost it more than $1 million in damages some 20 years later.

An employee who was sacked for misconduct that occurred while he was off duty has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission his dismissal was unfair.