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.
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An employee who possessed "a fervent sense of justification" for harassing a manager and denigrating her employer on social media has lost her bid for reinstatement.
Removing a casual worker from a group chat and reassigning her "regular" shifts to other employees didn't constitute a dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
It was "disingenuous" of an employer to claim it didn't dismiss a casual worker, after it removed her from an assignment due to misconduct allegations, then made no attempt to give her further shifts, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer was entitled to dismiss a worker for her "belligerent and disrespectful behaviour", but it denied her procedural fairness when one person acted as "judge, jury and executioner" during the disciplinary process, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer has failed to defend dismissing an employee for improperly claiming an allowance, after the Fair Work Commission found managers condoned practices that were inconsistent with its "unclear" policies.
An employer has failed to prove an executive followed through with her threats to resign, with the Fair Work Commission finding no reasonable person would have understood her words to mean she was leaving her job.
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