This week's top HR stories in brief
This week's biggest HR stories cover: workplace change; reinstatement orders; IR proposals; constructive conflict; wrongful termination; and more... » more »
Termination (631 items)
Worker to pay costs of doomed claim; Employer's costs bid backfires
The Fair Work Commission has ordered costs against an employee who refused to accept multiple settlement offers in the hopes of being reinstated. In another case, an employer that tried to "punish" an employee for his claim has to pay his costs. » more »
CEO awarded more than $2.2 million for wrongful termination
A CEO who was sacked for misconduct did not deliberately breach his company's share trading policy, a court has found, awarding him more than $2 million for wrongful termination. » more »
Pain demo "misguided" but dismissal was harsh
A senior employee who was sacked after he inflicted physical pain on new recruits without their consent has been reinstated, with a tribunal accepting he didn't intend them harm. » more »
Hair test result didn't warrant the sack; reinstatement stands
An employer has failed to overturn reinstatement orders for an employee who claimed he tested positive to illicit drugs as a result of touching rather than ingesting them. » more »
Full bench quashes "hesitant" reinstatement of long-serving employee
A Commissioner's "hesitant" decision to reinstate an employee has been overturned after a full bench found a worker with his long tenure had no excuse for breaching established procedures. » more »
Misconduct sacking ruled fair despite lack of final warning
A tribunal has upheld an employee's sacking for absenteeism and "confrontational and aggressive" behaviour, rejecting her claim that she was not adequately warned about her conduct. » more »
This week's top HR stories in brief
This week's biggest HR stories cover: fostering 'performance moments'; strength-based transformations; agile work; culture overhauls; resilience programs; and more... » more »
Discriminatory employer loses dismissal case; Aussie leaders too 'laid back'; and more
An employer that sacked a worker by text message has failed to prove the dismissal was performance-related rather than discriminatory. Also in this article, a wrap of recent termination rulings; Australian leaders are too accepting of underperformance; Ageist workplace myths prevail; and more. » more »
HR should have "intervened and resolved" escalating dispute
The Fair Work Commission has criticised an HR team for failing "at numerous points" to intervene and resolve a rostering dispute before it escalated to an "intractable situation". » more »
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