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An unfair dismissal decision highlights that in some circumstances it will be fair for an employer to sack a worker for serious out-of-hours misconduct that has no connection to work, an employment lawyer says.

An employer has been ordered to reinstate a worker it sacked for poor performance three weeks before he was due to receive a $150k redundancy payout.

Discussions of a s-xual nature "have no place at work", the Fair Work Commission has ruled in finding an employee was fairly sacked for asking a colleague at work if she'd had an abortion.

Many employees willingly work long hours, but even if no one's complaining, employers should monitor extra hours to ensure they are reasonable, a lawyer warns.

An employer that moved a full-time employee to a part-time role to reduce its workers' compensation costs has been ordered to pay more than $470k in damages and fines.

An employer must pay a worker $110k in damages, after an appeal court found the terms of his contract required more than an "opinion" of wrongdoing to justify his dismissal.

An employer has to reinstate a worker who described its customers online as "spastics and junkies", after the Fair Work Commission found dismissal was a disproportionate response to his misconduct.

The Fair Work Commission has criticised an employer's investigation and subsequent dismissal of a worker for misconduct, saying its HR manager should have ensured a proper process was followed in its show-cause meeting.

An employee who was sacked for refusing to perform aspects of a role he'd been redeployed to has won reinstatement to a different position, with the Fair Work Commission finding he was "simply the wrong person for the job".