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An employer's "very modest step" in limiting an employee's communications with his supervisor was reasonable action, in light of identified risks to the latter's mental health, a tribunal has found.

An employer has been directed to give a casual employee who sought conversion to permanent one final chance to sign a full-time contract, despite his two-month "hesitation" eroding its trust.

An employee who maintained he was "not in a mental state to text anyone" while absent for more than two months has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he didn't abandon his employment.

An employee's failure to declare medication he was taking for mental health issues denied his employer the opportunity to assess whether it posed any workplace risks, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding his dismissal.

An employer that offered its vacant weekend shifts on a 'first come, first served' basis must now give priority to an employee with a newborn baby, after he disputed its refusal of his flexible work request.

An employer has failed to temporarily block the reinstatement of a sacked employee who it believed posed a "serious" health and safety risk to its workplace.

A manager's dismissal for poor performance was "unnecessarily abrupt", the Fair Work Commission has found, particularly as he was led to believe he was "on track" to meet his PIP objectives.

An employee wasn't forced to resign by alleged discrimination, but rather she quit voluntarily because she felt "very aggrieved that she had not been promoted", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A senior employee should have known that his occasional rudeness might impact a colleague, but his behaviour didn't rise to the level of bullying, a court has ruled in awarding him $368k for wrongful dismissal.

Unions have already lodged a significant number of 'same job, same pay' applications, while employers remain in the dark as to how some of the scheme's "difficult issues" will play out, a lawyer says.