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An employer's rejection of a remote-working request was "soundly based" on reasonable business grounds, as face-to-face interactions can improve relationships, collaboration, and staff development, the Fair Work Commission has accepted.

An employee's "excited utterance" following a heated exchange with her supervisor didn't constitute a resignation, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, finding she was dismissed without an opportunity to respond.

Being publicly arrested at work was a valid reason for dismissal, because the employee knew he was a 'person of interest' to police but attended his workplace anyway, the Fair Work Commission has found.

An employer was entitled to dismiss a manager for performance and conduct issues, but its failure to give him time to improve and its "near total lack of procedural fairness" made its decision unfair.

An application for orders to stop s-xual harassment had no reasonable prospects of success after the employee accused of sending "vile" messages resigned, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

An investigation into alleged misconduct was "sub-standard" but did not amount to repudiation of an employee's contract, the Fair Work Commission has found in a constructive dismissal dispute.

Touching a female colleague on the bottom was "sufficiently serious to justify summary dismissal", the Fair Work Commission has found in rejecting an employee's unfair dismissal claim.

An HR professional has been fined more than $100k, amid more than $4 million in penalties handed down after a "deliberate" scheme to deprive workers of their entitlements.

An employer made reasonable adjustments to an employee's "challenging" and "confronting" duties and hours, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting she was forced to resign due to a lack of support.

A commission has rejected that weekly meetings with a probationary employee were a "performance appraisal" that exempted an employer from liability for his psychological injury.