An employee who claimed his workplace absence was weaponised as a disciplinary threat to his whole team has lost his psychological injury claim, after a commission found the employer's warnings were "entirely reasonable".
An HR leader had a "genuine desire" to understand whether an absent employee was able to continue in his role, and she wasn't trying to "trigger" the end of his employment as he claimed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
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An employee would have been better off admitting to workplace misconduct as a "brain fart" instead of denying he ever engaged in it, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding he was fairly sacked for vandalising client property.
Bad leadership is a critical problem right now, but it is partly due to an increasingly complex work environment, rather than "bad people", a workplace specialist says.
An employer's decision to retrench an HR consultant was an "egregious example of the unfair exercise of managerial prerogative", the Fair Work Commission has found, while criticising its HR leaders for their "disrespect".
Recognition for frontline staff "doesn't need to be tied up with bureaucracy", according to a chief people leader now embarking on a major transformation and EVP project.
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