After assuring an HR practitioner that her continuity of service wouldn't be broken when she transitioned from permanent to casual, an employer has nonetheless defeated her subsequent unfair dismissal claim by relying on an 11-day gap between her contracts.
It was highly unlikely an employee would have been sacked if her employer had afforded her "basic procedural fairness", the Fair Work Commission has ruled, in awarding her maximum compensation for unfair dismissal.
The age-old problem that employees "don't behave in the way [employers] expect them to" can partly be attributed to organisations relying on values that are far too vague, a culture consultant says.
Many employers' reconciliation and cultural inclusion efforts are failing to achieve meaningful change, due to widespread fears of having difficult conversations, according to authorities in the space.
An employee's evidence about the ongoing impacts of experiencing workplace harassment was so "tainted by [her] lies" that she couldn't pass the first hurdle in her psych injury damages claim.
Proposals to insert "clearer, and in some contexts prioritised, protections based on biological s-x" in discrimination laws would add a further layer of complexity to employers' obligations in this space, according to a workplace lawyer.
SMART goals, five-year plans, KPIs and performance reviews all aim to keep a leader's eyes "locked on a finish line", but they don't lead to personal growth, a leadership coach says.
A manager wasn't forced to resign due to "ongoing psychological safety hazards"; rather, she just didn't like working for the employer, the Fair Work Commission has found.
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