Compliance & case law | Page 65 (2,275 items)

The Fair Work Commission has affirmed disciplinary action against a remote worker who drank wine during an online meeting, rejecting that he was not "at work" at the time.

It was fair to sack a director who failed to disclose a s-xual relationship with a subordinate and was "essentially dishonest" when questioned about it, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employee has failed to prove his employer and two HR managers tried to pressure him into an "unreasonable" on-call roster, and then unlawfully sacked him after he refused.

An employee who resigned in the "heat of the moment" was dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding the employer failed to clarify whether she "really intended" her action.

A candidate is claiming an employer should have determined her "employability" based on details included in her resume, and not from an "inaccurate" personality assessment made by artificial intelligence.

An employee has won nearly $20k compensation after her employer summarily dismissed her, with the Fair Work Commission finding it failed to properly investigate allegations that her bullying behaviour caused three colleagues to resign.

An employee voluntarily resigned because he couldn't let go of a workplace grievance, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding he could have instead followed his employer's directions to stop all disrespectful communications.

The Federal Court has ordered a continued injunction against a misconduct investigation, finding it possible that the employer's process breached its enterprise agreement.

An employer's "abrupt" dismissal of a poor performing employee, after finding he "wasted" seven hours browsing non-work-related websites, was procedurally deficient, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employer has failed to prove that it did not bully or intimidate an employee into signing a performance management plan, with a commission upholding his psychological injury claim.