Online s-xual harassment can have a "chilling effect" on women, but employers are perceived as minimising its impact or viewing it as less serious than physical forms, research has found.
A medically incapacitated employee's request to adjourn unfair dismissal proceedings has been rejected, with the Fair Work Commission finding any further delay would prejudice the employer and prevent a fair outcome.
An employer could not reasonably argue that an employee's perception of "chronic understaffing" and limited support was not in fact "a reality", a tribunal has found in psychological injury proceedings.
The HR profession continues to be "very invested in formal qualifications and formally gained credentials", but there are signs it's starting to recognise these "are not actually the 'be all and end all'", an experienced HR recruitment specialist says.
Strategic problems are rarely "solved", so trying to "fix" them often makes things worse, according to a business academic who urges leaders to take a different approach.
An employee held a "reasonable and understandable expectation" that his employment would continue past the end date of his fixed-term contract, the Fair Work Commission has found, in clearing him to pursue a general protections claim.
An employer that accused a worker of abandoning her employment and causing it to lose customers will have to face her general protections claim, after the Fair Work Commission found it dismissed her.
A manager who told an employee to "f-ck off" and leave work didn't constructively dismiss him, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding the direction was an effort to "defuse" their heated exchange.
The Fair Work Commission didn't become a "protagonist" when it aimed to vindicate its "theory" that an employer engaged in an elaborate sham to deprive workers of penalty rates, the Federal Court has found in rejecting an apprehended bias claim.
The Fair Work Commission has no choice but to make an order requiring labour hire workers be paid the same pay rates as their directly employed counterparts at a site, the Mining and Energy Union is arguing in the first 'same job, same pay' application.
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