A commission has criticised an employee's complaint about a "racist and s-xually inappropriate" Microsoft Teams message, finding it unnecessarily consumed "countless" work hours and thousands of dollars in lost productivity.
An employer's failure to suspend a manager "at any time" during a 10-month investigation into aggressive conduct allegations has undermined its decision to dismiss him.
The former CEO of Harrier Group was summarily dismissed for deliberately misusing her work credit card while the company was struggling financially, not because she raised bullying and pay issues, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
An employee's "severe error in judgement" in attending work while intoxicated outweighed his employer's "meaningful failure" to check on his welfare after sending him home, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A team leader who choked a colleague and threatened to kill another after they "provoked" him was fairly dismissed, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, rejecting that his actions were a "fight or flight" response and therefore justified.
An employer was entitled to dismiss an employee who committed safety breaches to provoke a reaction from colleagues and then threw an "adult tantrum" when they called him out on it, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Two employees who breached their employment contracts by discussing a colleague's new salary have won maximum compensation for unfair dismissal, after the Fair Work Commission found their conduct was "not sufficiently serious".
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S-xual harassment allegations against an employee were part of an employer's "pre-meditated" plan to remove him from its business "in the most efficient way", the Fair Work Commission has found.
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