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Summary dismissals are often disputed, and they can have serious consequences for employers when they're found to be unfair. Watch this webcast to understand how to avoid common pitfalls when responding to serious misconduct.

The fact that an employee was over 55 years old and considering retirement didn't mean his employer had to approve his flexible work request, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

A worker, who maintains she was a contractor despite making dismissal claims, has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission it should grant extensions for her various general protections actions.

A diversity symbol in the Fair Work Commission President's email signature did not suggest he would be biased against a claimant who was "pro-free speech", a full bench has ruled.

An employee aimed to "attack the competence" of an organisation's directors to make his own evidence more persuasive, but this didn't make his unfair dismissal claim vexatious, the Fair Work Commission has found.

The general protections claim of an employee seeking more than $100 million is again underway, after a full bench of the Fair Work Commission found his actions against 18 respondents shouldn't have been dismissed.

An employer that continued to accuse a sacked worker of engaging in criminal conduct has been denied leave to appeal against paying her $14k for unfair dismissal.

Sending a boss a text message that said "good luck doing it by yourself" wasn't a resignation, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A ruling that an employee's performance-based dismissal was unfair contained numerous errors, a full bench of the FWC has found, in clarifying what constitutes "harsh" under the Fair Work Act.

An employer that claimed to have video footage of an employee's alleged serious misconduct, but didn't show it to him, must now defend his late unfair dismissal claim.