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A WHS specialist who refused to give her employer documents stored on her laptop because she was on sick leave was "otherwise capable of sending multiple emails", the Fair Work Commission has noted in upholding her dismissal.

An employee who admitted to smoking marijuana while on annual leave was not unfairly sacked over a positive test when he returned to work, nor treated less fairly than his colleagues, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Given that ideas surrounding gender are "always evolving", it's important to transition those ideas into policies and practices, says the people leader at an award-winning LGBT-inclusive employer.

Flu season is already upon us, but it's not too late for employers to reduce the significant impact it's expected to have on workplaces this winter.

Divorce and separation policies are just as important for employers to have in place as those covering parental and bereavement leave, a lawyer says.

Ahead of Labor legislating a positive duty to prevent workplace s-xual harassment, there is still a false but "prevailing sense" among employers that having policies and training in place will be enough to discharge it, a lawyer says.

An employer "rightly" sacked an employee who put its reputation at risk when she engaged in criminal conduct, the Fair Work Commission has found.

After sacking an employee for a code of conduct breach involving a consensual s-xual interaction, an employer has successfully appealed against orders to reinstate and compensate him.

Australia's work-from-home experience is "still very much in progress", but employers and employees alike would benefit from a voluntary code of practice setting out standard conditions and expectations, new research suggests.

Until now 'flexible' work has largely been limited by boundaries and parameters, but leading employers are replacing their policies with frameworks as they shift family-friendly practices up a gear.