After already receiving a final warning and being placed on a performance improvement plan, an employee's failure to complete a crucial task made his dismissal valid and fair, according to the Fair Work Commission.
A novel psychosocial safety prosecution puts employers firmly on notice about their legal obligations and the need to manage risks arising from common processes.
Many organisations are now attempting to plan their right workforce for "tomorrow", when they haven't even reached a consensus on what they need today, according to experts in the field.
Despite accepting that a supervisor's suitability for redeployment was "unlikely", the Fair Work Commission has found an HR practitioner should have discussed available jobs before dismissing her on the basis of redundancy.
Employers often don't invest sufficient time and effort into planning for an enterprise bargaining round, despite the enormous value of doing so, according to an HR consultant who highlights some commonly overlooked elements of the process.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected that an employee was entitled to work from home without limitation, despite his claims of "ambiguity" in his employment contract.
An employee who threw a coffee cup "with significant force" after a colleague called him a "boofhead" has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission his conduct was a result of provocation.
Obstacles that hold employees back from reporting workplace s-xual harassment include psychological factors that should receive more attention in HR strategies, researchers say.
It wasn't unlawful to sack an employee who resisted returning to the office because of her chronic health conditions, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
A Fair Work Commissioner applied the wrong principles when he found an employer had no reason to question whether a resignation, tendered during a paranoid delusion, was freely given.
All employers should consider putting in place a workplace s-xual harassment prevention plan, even though such plans are only expressly prescribed in one jurisdiction, according to a risk management expert.
Recent events have shone a spotlight on whistleblowing, placing employers firmly on notice that their response to a protected disclosure could be subject to intense scrutiny. Watch this webcast to understand the role HR plays in this challenging space.
