Adjusting an employee's roster to accommodate her caring responsibilities wouldn't have imposed a significant burden on an employer, and its refusal amounted to discrimination, a tribunal has ruled.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected that an employee was forced to resign due to unaddressed psychosocial risks, finding her employer was "supportive" and acted in a "timely and comprehensive manner".
The Fair Work Commission has berated an employee, who continued to use AI tools to prepare his general protections claim after being warned his submissions were "incoherent" and misleading.
Despite an employee's efforts to cast an email he sent in a different light, a commission has found it wasn't about "wishing everyone a happy new year" but rather was "extremely inappropriate" and warranted his dismissal.
It was "extremely harsh" to dismiss a senior manager who was taking leave due to a psychological injury, after being falsely accused of financial mismanagement, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee who responded "what are you gonna do sack me", after being told not to text and drive, has won compensation for unfair dismissal in the Fair Work Commission.
The Fair Work Commission has slammed an employer for its "baseless" sacking of an employee who was undergoing cancer treatment, and ordered it to pay her maximum compensation.
Despite failing to help a manager deal with a "complicated" parental leave situation, an employer has proved it didn't take unlawful adverse action against an employee, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
It was fair to sack an employee who showed up to work at the wrong time, the Fair Work Commission has found, even though the employer should have discussed its change to his regular shift.
Employees "cannot expect to avoid standard scrutiny" of their performance by claiming they are being bullied, the Fair Work Commission has stressed, in rejecting a stop-bullying bid.
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