An employee who possessed "a fervent sense of justification" for harassing a manager and denigrating her employer on social media has lost her bid for reinstatement.
An employer was not required to put the interests of an employee "ahead of all others", in engaging in mediation to help him return to work after an 18-month absence, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal claim.
A manager has claimed he suffered a psychological injury after a social media "debate" made him think it would be "impossible" to avoid conflict at work.
Apps utilising deepfake technology can be used for harmless fun, but they can also create content that might damage an organisation's reputation, or humiliate an employee, a lawyer says.
Sharing offensive material with colleagues on social media was "abject stupidity", a Fair Work Commission full bench has found, but the conduct wasn't sufficiently connected to work to justify dismissal.
An employee who live-streamed her participation in an anti-lockdown protest has failed to convince a commission that her dismissal was harsh because several mitigating factors "clouded" her judgement.
An employee has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission that he didn't deserve to be dismissed because his numerous Facebook friend requests and unsolicited messages to a young female colleague were actually from his seven-year-old son.
The Federal Court has ordered the reinstatement of an employee sacked for making "deliberately provocative" social media posts, but declined to order damages for distress, finding he didn't appear to be "an individual whose feelings might easily be hurt".
An employee's "vile and racist" social media posts were anonymous enough not to be a sackable offence, but his "violent takedown" of another person warranted his dismissal, the Fair Work Commission has found.
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