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A long-serving employee with a history of misconduct has successfully claimed unfair dismissal, despite the Fair Work Commission likening him to a workplace "dinosaur".

An employee who claimed her comments about a supervisor's weight were a "scientific fact" rather than bullying has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission she was unfairly dismissed.

The case of a contractor who funnelled more than $500k in payments to his own accounts over five months holds important lessons on preventing fraud, says NSW corruption watchdog ICAC.

The Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to reinstate an employee whose role was made redundant, after slamming its consultation failures and "shoddy" record-keeping.

The Federal Circuit Court has criticised an HR business partner's defence of an adverse action claim, finding she sacked an employee on probation for making workplace complaints.

An employer that waited a year to sack an employee after discovering he had a criminal history has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission the dismissal was fair.

An employer has paid a candidate $2,500 compensation and revised its recruitment processes after the Australian Human Rights Commission found it had unlawfully discriminated on the basis of a criminal conviction.

An employer that went to "extraordinary lengths" to support an employee experiencing domestic violence, but then sacked her for poor attendance, has successfully argued the dismissal was fair.

Westpac was justified in sacking an employee for allowing a relative to use his work phone and transferring customer data to his personal email account, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

The Fair Work Commission has found an employer had a valid reason to dismiss an employee for breaching its D&A policy, but the dismissal was harsh because of its HR manager's "pattern of overreach" towards him.