A commissioner has criticised a major employer's "tick and flick" training on its safety and conduct policies, but stressed that workers should not need a training course to know when certain actions are wrong, in unfair dismissal rulings involving members of a Facebook group sharing explicit materials.
A worker who was sacked after using both self-defence and unnecessary force to restrain a violent client has been awarded compensation, with a commission finding he wasn't alerted to an internal appeals process prior to his dismissal.
An employer and its HR manager have been penalised for unlawful adverse actions, after a "welfare check" on a worker quickly escalated into her dismissal because the manager didn't want to deal with her bullying allegations.
A worker who claimed he suffered a psychological injury from being accused of s-xual harassment has been denied compensation, with a tribunal ruling his stress reaction was "understandable" but did not constitute a mental condition.
A financial analyst who claimed she was required to work 16 hours per weekday, and up to eight hours every weekend, has failed to prove her employer breached the reasonable hours provisions of the Fair Work Act.
A large employer has been ordered to reinstate an injured worker who it sacked for allegedly failing to comply with a lawful instruction to attend an independent medical examination (IME) through his alleged "aggressive behaviour" at the appointment.
Employees don't have a workplace right to "subjectively decide what is and is not a safe and appropriate workplace practice", a Federal judge has affirmed in dismissing a worker's adverse action claim.
A local government worker who was accused of breaching safety guidelines, and possibly WHS laws, has failed to overturn his dismissal for operating plant in a reckless manner and showing little concern for his own and others' safety.
In the latest of a long list of anti-vax disputes determined by Australian tribunals, a worker has unsuccessfully claimed that she delayed complying with a COVID-19 vaccination direction because she was concerned, as a lactating mother, for the health and safety of herself and her baby.
A police officer who was forced to medically retire has lost his unfair dismissal application, with a commission finding his case focused on various grievances instead of his actual fitness for work.
