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The FWC denied a request to avoid paying redundancy to an employee as the new job offered was too different from the old one, making it not a valid alternative.

The Fair Work Commission ruled that a casual support worker was dismissed when excluded from a rostering app and ignored by his employer, allowing his general protections claim to proceed.

A recent case found an employer breached privacy laws by sharing an employee’s medical information with staff, despite claiming workplace health and safety obligations. The exemption for employee records under the Privacy Act 1988 didn’t apply, resulting in the employer paying compensation.

Making the penalty fit the offence was the focus of a case where the employer had failed to check its obligations in relation to payment of an employee for his accrued annual leave, on termination of his employment.

An employer in the disability services sector forced an employee to resign by making unilateral changes to her contract without consultation.

Learn why the Fair Work Commission ruled the termination of this employee to be an unfair dismissal.

Demanding that an employee return company property within an unreasonable time frame amounted to unfair dismissal.

The Court found the HR Manager complicit in underpaying employees and training others in a payroll scam.

When a manager thought a casual worker had blocked his text, he removed him from the roster program and group chat. Read why the FWC dismissed the employer’s objections to the worker’s unfair dismissal claim.

When a restructure made a financial analyst’s role redundant, he claimed his dismissal was not a genuine redundancy. Read why the Fair Work Commission found his dismissal was unfair.