An employee who was "at best" difficult and argumentative has won compensation for unfair dismissal, after the Fair Work Commission found numerous verbal warnings didn't give him sufficient notice that termination was on the cards. » more »
The Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to reinstate an employee it reported to the police and then sacked, finding it acted prematurely and relied on retributive complaints made by her subordinates. » more »
Which of 2020's unfair dismissal cases will have lasting ramifications? This webcast provides a roundup of the year's most important rulings to put your organisation on the right footing in 2021. » more »
A dismissal meeting that "blindsided" an employee accused of misconduct while on annual leave "should never have occurred in the way it did", the Fair Work Commission has chided. » more »
An employer has to compensate an employee for a workplace-bullying-related psychological injury, after it failed to prove it had a reasonably arguable case to dispute her claim. » more »
An employee's dishonesty during an investigation into his out-of-hours misconduct made his dismissal fair, while a colleague sacked over the same incident won reinstatement. Also in this article: a roundup of recent dismissal rulings. » more »
A manager should have better controlled his "easily triggered" temper, the Fair Work Commission has said in upholding his dismissal for verbally abusing a female colleague. » more »
An employee's opportunity to respond before he was sacked for serious misconduct was too "narrow in scope", an FWC full bench has ruled, while nonetheless upholding the dismissal as fair. » more »
Two managers could have handled certain situations better, according to the Fair Work Commission, but it has stopped short of granting stop-bullying orders to an employee who claimed he was "insulted and humiliated" by them. » more »
An employer has defended sacking a chief operating officer who misled its board in a "serious and material way", with the Federal Circuit Court rejecting his adverse action claim. » more »
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