An employer's "perseverance" with a proposal to reduce an employee's hours due to health and safety concerns forced her to quit, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in awarding her $29k in compensation.
The Fair Work Commission has chastised a supervisor who did nothing to stop an employee from being bullied, finding he failed to "model and enforce" respectful workplace behaviour.
An employer's failure to suspend a manager "at any time" during a 10-month investigation into aggressive conduct allegations has undermined its decision to dismiss him.
The former CEO of Harrier Group was summarily dismissed for deliberately misusing her work credit card while the company was struggling financially, not because she raised bullying and pay issues, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employee's "severe error in judgement" in attending work while intoxicated outweighed his employer's "meaningful failure" to check on his welfare after sending him home, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer has convinced a commission there are "no reasonable means by which it can create a role that a man can perform", and has been granted an exemption from discrimination laws.
A team leader who choked a colleague and threatened to kill another after they "provoked" him was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, rejecting that his actions were a "fight or flight" response and therefore justified.
An employer was entitled to dismiss an employee who committed safety breaches to provoke a reaction from colleagues and then threw an "adult tantrum" when they called him out on it, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A tribunal has criticised Australia Post for its "witch hunt" of an impressionable worker, whose psychological injury stemmed from bored colleagues making jokes at her expense.
An employer dismissed an employee when it changed her position from part time to casual without her agreement, the Fair Work Commission has found, clearing her to pursue her general protections claim.
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