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The Fair Work Commission has slammed an employee's attempts to portray an HR manager as a 'puppet master' who would go to any lengths to ensure his dismissal.

A tribunal has rejected an employee's claims that his former employer's HR department was sufficiently competent to run its defence in unfair dismissal proceedings, and allowed it to be legally represented.

The Fair Work Commission has rejected an employee's claim that he shouldn't have been dismissed for sending a photo of himself to a female colleague, after she specifically asked him not to.

An employer has failed, on appeal, to establish it had reasonable business grounds to refuse an employee's flexible work request.

An employer could have prevented two unfair dismissal claims by resetting its workplace culture and reinforcing the line between banter and bullying, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employee's dismissal for making a racial comment was unfair because his employer didn't properly consider the context of the remark, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

It was unfair of an employer to sack a 73-year-old employee with nearly four decades' service on the basis of one medical assessment, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The Fair Work Commission has found an employee was fairly sacked for being intoxicated at work, but chastised his employer for its response to his workplace suicide attempt.

In a case that illustrates the importance of giving employees timely, accurate information in writing about major workplace changes, a redundancy that occurred for legitimate reasons has been deemed an unfair dismissal.

A manager should have recognised that his behaviour towards younger female employees would come across as "odd" and "obsessive", the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.