An employee's failure to declare medication he was taking for mental health issues denied his employer the opportunity to assess whether it posed any workplace risks, the Fair Work Commission has found in upholding his dismissal.
Employers that take the time to "onboard" their AI tools will be far more likely to realise productivity gains than those taking an approach of "just roll it out and see what happens", a business intelligence specialist says.
An employer that offered its vacant weekend shifts on a 'first come, first served' basis must now give priority to an employee with a newborn baby, after he disputed its refusal of his flexible work request.
It's easy to dismiss happiness as a "fluffy" topic, but deploying wellness strategies without a happiness lens is akin to applying a band-aid, a specialist says.
An employer has failed to temporarily block the reinstatement of a sacked employee who it believed posed a "serious" health and safety risk to its workplace.
A manager's dismissal for poor performance was "unnecessarily abrupt", the Fair Work Commission has found, particularly as he was led to believe he was "on track" to meet his PIP objectives.
Among the standards employers must meet to satisfy their positive duty to prevent workplace harassment, "leadership" is the most important, according to former Federal S-x Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins.
An employee wasn't forced to resign by alleged discrimination, but rather she quit voluntarily because she felt "very aggrieved that she had not been promoted", the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
General protections claims are the fastest-growing category of applications in the Fair Work Commission, with reforms now underway to stem the tide. This webinar will discuss important developments in both procedural issues and case law.
