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An employee who was sacked on grounds that defied "any reasonable analysis" has lost his unfair dismissal appeal, after a commission found he fabricated evidence and made critical Facebook posts about his employer.
In a case the Fair Work Commission found "disturbing on a number of levels", an employee whose supervisory practices constituted bullying and harassment has failed in her unfair dismissal claim.
An employer that sacked a worker over a breakdown in the employment relationship has been criticised for failing to resolve a conflict between her and her colleagues.
On an initial reading, the High Court's Barker decision seemed "a devastating result" for any legal recognition of good faith in employment relationships, but the consequences actually "may not be so dire", a legal expert says.
Shifting the emphasis in unfair dismissal proceedings off process and onto the reasons for termination would - if implemented - be a welcome change for HR professionals, employment lawyers say.
A redundancy dispute in the Fair Work Commission has clarified what might - and might not - be considered acceptable extra travel time when offering redeployment.
An employer and its managers took unlawful adverse action against an employee when they asked other workers to write complaints that would support their decision to sack her, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
More stringent performance management processes are set to drive an increase in bullying and discrimination complaints this year, warns an employment lawyer.
An employer must compensate a manager it dismissed for "unlawfully" reformatting a company laptop to access personal files when his role was made redundant.
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