Demoting an employee whose "zealous approach" to his role negatively affected workplace relationships was fair and reasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employee has failed to prove she was forced to resign for the sake of her mental health, alleging she was bullied and falsely accused of misconduct.
Sacking a worker for being unable to perform the inherent requirements of her role, which included reporting to a manager who had bullied her, was not unlawful adverse action, an employer has proved.
After hiring two employees from its competitor Employsure, HR software company Elmo has won one dispute and lost the other over whether the post-employment restraints in their contracts were reasonable.
A manager with post-traumatic stress disorder has accused an employer of having "no care factor", claiming that with the right support and adjustments, she could have returned to work.
Simple email communications can wield enormous power in helping to prevent and defend disputes involving absent workers, according to an employment lawyer.
An employer has failed to prove it shouldn't have to pay redundancy entitlements to workers who moved to a new labour supplier at the same site after a contract changed hands.
An employee let his family circumstances cloud his judgement of an employer's return-to-work requests, seeing them as "pushy and unwelcome" when in fact they were reasonably "firm", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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