A managing director who criticised an employee in front of colleagues and referred to her boyfriend as a "party boy" overstepped the mark, but the behaviour wasn't bullying, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employee who was sacked for inappropriate behaviour and comments towards young female workers has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected in the Fair Work Commission.
An employer has successfully argued that a sacked employee's true motivation in pursuing an unfair dismissal claim was to exact revenge on her manager.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld an employee's unfair dismissal claim, finding the employer failed to inform him of allegations prior to an investigation meeting, and chose its own support person for him.
A company that denied employment to a candidate based on his "very serious" criminal conviction has refused to comply with a recommendation to compensate him.
An employee has failed to prove his redundancy was not genuine, despite the Fair Work Commission finding HR could have done more to canvass redeployment options with him.
Female employees should not have to tell their older superiors that they don't want to be sent salacious texts, the Fair Work Commission has stressed, in finding an employee's dismissal for sending "sexually loaded" messages to colleagues was fair.
An employee made false bullying allegations to deflect attention from her own behaviour, and was the "foolish and misguided choreographer of [her] own downfall", the Fair Work Commission has found in ruling her dismissal was fair.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
