It was "fanciful" for an HR professional to defend forwarding confidential work information to his personal email, according to the Fair Work Commission, rejecting that his dismissal "did not fit the crime".
Practising acceptance allows employees facing stressful work situations to "pause before deciding how to react", leading to better performance and less work-related anxiety, new research shows.
HR practitioners continue to face increasing personal liability risks under the Fair Work Act. Watch this webcast to understand where your exposure lies and how to minimise it.
A disciplinary meeting was not the main cause of an employee's psychological injury, but it was the final straw for him after a year of workplace hazing and bullying, a commission has found.
A court has granted interim orders restraining a senior manager from soliciting his former employer's clients and staff to join a competitor, after accepting evidence that the business might otherwise lose millions of dollars in revenue.
Giving an employee one day to respond to a show-cause letter after accusing him of assaulting a colleague was unreasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in upholding his unfair dismissal claim.
Meaningful conversations that drive wellbeing, performance, and retention require insight into how 'attached' an employee feels to an organisation, but most managers are flying blind, an engagement specialist says.
A finding that an employee "acted with a lack of urgency" to ensure he maintained legal working rights was open to the Fair Work Commission, a full bench has confirmed in rejecting his unfair dismissal appeal.
A disclosure of mental health issues shouldn't necessarily stop a manager from holding an underperforming employee to account, but the approach they take might need to change, a conflict specialist says.
Ensuring that clients can freely choose who they work with was a crucial point in a court decision that refused to grant an employer's request for an interlocutory restraint order covering its departing employees.
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.
