An employer that made a director's role redundant before she returned from maternity leave and after a flexible work request has been fined $52,000 for taking prohibited adverse action.
A manager who requested compassionate leave, and received a warning after she didn't comply with a request for evidence, did not suffer adverse action, a court has ruled.
In a study with implications for managing workplace behaviour, a researcher has found women's s-xual harassment risks increase with their level of authority.
An employer that allowed a worker to secretly check her manager's computer for p-rnography has been ordered to pay him $25k in compensation for unfair dismissal.
Employers should make flexibility the "default position" for how work is performed to increase the workforce participation of older workers and people with disability, Age and Disability Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan says.
An employee who made Islamaphobic, crude and s-xist comments at work has had his unfair dismissal claim upheld, after the Fair Work Commission found the context rendered his misconduct less serious.
Balancing the 'pain' of exiting employees and the 'gain' of building a future for those remaining is the most difficult task for HR during an organisational restructure, according to senior HR professionals at Toyota.
A worker who claimed he didn't have the skills to perform duties he refused has lost his unfair dismissal claim after his employer appealed. Meanwhile, new research shows how to stop employees 'mentally resigning' from their jobs; the evolution of 'smart' workplaces; and how recognition efforts boost retention.
The Fair Work Commission has found a manager bullied an employee by requiring her to undertake an induction program and appointing her a mentor upon her return from a period of leave.
An employer must pay a former worker more than $100k in damages, after a court found it breached his contract in failing to set up a formal performance bonus plan.
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