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Technical issues that prevented an employee from working from home for a few days were "hardly of sufficient gravity" to force him to resign, the Fair Work Commission has found.

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The integrity of an employer's misconduct investigation has been criticised, with the Fair Work Commission finding it substantiated allegations against an employee before he had a proper opportunity to respond.

Asking an employee to attend a disciplinary meeting and provide a medical certificate for his unauthorised absence wasn't "coercion", the Fair Work Commission has found in unfair dismissal proceedings.

Exiting a difficult employee too often becomes a "train wreck", but certain tactics increase the likelihood of successfully negotiating a mutual separation, a workplace lawyer says.

A remote worker was unfairly dismissed for refusing to accept changes to her position that would require her to perform her duties in the office, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A worker could have followed formal grievance processes rather than leaving her job, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting her constructive dismissal claim.

The High Court has granted an employee special leave to appeal a ruling that found an employer couldn't have reasonably foreseen his "extraordinary" psychiatric response to being dismissed.

An employer has been slammed for its unreasonable, aggressive and "potentially unlawful" conduct towards a manager who had resigned, with the Fair Work Commission finding it sacked her when it "waived" her notice period.

Employers' obligations to ensure psychosocial safety at work can present a "significant challenge", the Fair Work Commission has observed in finding a stressed and frustrated employee was unfairly dismissed for misconduct.