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An employee who posed for a photo while skylarking at work and then posted it on Facebook has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission he was unfairly dismissed. Also in this article, flexible work and misconduct rulings; women are progressing into full-time management roles faster than men, but are still worse off financially; and more.

The Fair Work Commission has rejected an employee's claim that he shouldn't have been dismissed for sending a photo of himself to a female colleague, after she specifically asked him not to.

In just 90 days, Hoyts launched and was already reporting engagement benefits from a social media platform that improved communication across all its sites, its head of HR says.

Recent rulings highlight that many employees still don't know how to behave on social media, making workplace policies fundamental to mitigating employers' reputational damage risks.

In a case that shows the "inescapable nature of social media" extending to the legal space, the Fair Work Commission has found an employee's Facebook posts about his holidays undermined his reasons for not lodging an unfair dismissal claim on time.

HR professionals should prepare for unions' increasing reliance on social media as a way to put pressure on employers, a legal expert says.

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An employer has successfully defended its decision to sack an employee for making a misinformed Facebook post about upcoming work shifts.

Employees can't rely on a lack of social media training to defend online comments that they "would not dream of" making face-to-face, a Fair Work Commissioner has said in upholding a supervisor's dismissal as fair.