Compliance & case law | Page 196 (2,399 items)

An employee's stop-bullying application has been rejected, after the Fair Work Commission found the employer's head of HR successfully eliminated the risk of workplace bullying.

An employer was wrong to sack a manager over "implausible" and unfounded allegations that he engaged in racist behaviour and threatened to sack a new employee, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employee who was sacked for having an undisclosed criminal conviction, after avoiding her employer's police check requests for two years, has successfully claimed she was unfairly dismissed.

The Federal Circuit Court has rejected that an employee was dismissed for complaining about his performance improvement plan and workplace bullying.

The Fair Work Commission has rejected that an employee was forced to resign out of frustration with the handling of her harassment complaints.

An employer's procedural failings rendered an employee's dismissal for s-xual harassment unfair, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

ANZ Bank was justified in sacking a senior employee for misconduct, and didn't use her as a "scapegoat", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employee has failed to prove an employer took adverse action in dismissing her due to her age, after it enquired about her plans for retirement.

The Fair Work Commission has rebuked an employer for failing to adequately manage sponsored workers, finding it unfairly dismissed an employee for the "trifling" offence of exceeding her permitted working hours.

A commission has rejected an unfair dismissal claim brought by an employee who was openly hostile towards his employer and bullied his superiors, declaring he was "the architect of his own demise".