A transgender employee has successfully claimed his employer discriminated against him, after it stored his former name and allowed it to be disclosed during internal recruitment processes.
Even if a senior manager objected to a proposed secondment, he wasn't exercising a workplace complaint or enquiry, so his dismissal wasn't unlawful adverse action, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employer has failed to overturn a reinstatement order for an employee sacked for a positive cannabis test, with a Fair Work Commission full bench rejecting that the ruling cast doubt on the validity of workplace D&A policies more broadly.
Requiring an employee to adhere to her performance improvement plan "to the letter" was "so lacking in fairness and flexibility" that it wasn't objectively reasonable, a commission has ruled in psychological injury proceedings.
A tribunal has criticised an employer's "combative" response to an employee's workplace adjustment request, upholding his discrimination claim and flagging a potential $900k compensation order.
It was unfair to sack an employee who sent "extremely insulting" messages, which inadvertently ended up being viewed by his employer, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The Federal Court has rejected a senior HR business partner's latest challenge regarding his serious misconduct dismissal, after two Fair Work Commission decisions upheld it as fair.
Engaging in "deeply personal" behaviour with a client amounted to s-xual misconduct, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, in rejecting an employee's unfair dismissal claim.
A worker has failed to convince a tribunal that he wasn't sacked for his code of conduct breaches, but rather because he'd disclosed his mental health conditions to his manager.
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