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After failing to consult with an absent worker prior to deciding her role was redundant, an employer has been ordered to reinstate her.

For many employees in abusive relationships, breaks from work are cause for fear, not celebration, and managers must therefore prepare for FDV disclosures, a leadership specialist says.

It simply isn't possible for any workplace process to meet the needs of every neurodivergent person, no matter how much care and thought goes into its design, a commission has noted in response to an aggrieved employee's claim.

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Very small, simple, and seemingly insignificant acts by leaders can have a huge impact on performance, a psychologist and leadership specialist says.

When an employer reduced the wages of men in its workforce by $10k to bring their pay into line with women's, it effectively dismissed them, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An employee was unlawfully sacked for discussing remuneration with colleagues and making workplace complaints, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.

An absent employee did not abandon his employment, the Fair Work Commission has found, but rather his employer showed a "troubling and inexcusable disinterest" in his welfare prior to sacking him.

The Fair Work Commission has clarified the extent of some of its powers regarding s-xual harassment allegations that traverse the period before and after relevant amendments to the Fair Work Act.

An unfair dismissal claim won by an employee suspected of misusing his personal leave entitlement highlights that employers should avoid making hasty conclusions about misconduct, a lawyer says.