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July 27, 2018

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE
Workplace bullying, performance management, and dismissals being effected “in person”

Archive, Discrimination and Harassment, Performance Management, Termination of Employment, Workplace Bullying Adverse Action, Bullying, Investigation, Misconduct, Performance, Redundancy, Serious Misconduct, Sexual Harassment, Social Media, Termination, Workplace Bullying, Workplace Culture, Workplace function

This month we examine a case which considered the definition of bullying and also commented on what constitutes reasonable performance management. We also briefly look at a case where an employer dismissed an employee by email. What constitutes bullying under the Fair Work Act 2009 The Fair Work Commission recently dismissed an anti-bullying order sought […]

May 30, 2018

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE
Recent employment law decisions provide timely guidance for employers

Awards and Employee Entitlements, Misconduct, Policies and Procedures, Termination of Employment, Underpayment Claims, Unfair Dismissal, Workplace Health & Safety Dismissal, Employee Entitlements, Employer fined, Fair Work Commission, Pregnancy, Safety Breach, Social Media, Unfair Dismissal Application, Workplace Safety

This month we look at two recent decisions in the employment law space. The first decision relates to an employer’s decision to terminate an employee for breaching a cardinal safety rule. The second decision relates to the reprehensible conduct of an employer who failed to pass on an employee’s paid parental leave entitlement. Use of […]

March 19, 2018

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE
Out of hours conduct on Social Media leads to Fair Dismissal

Misconduct, Policies and Procedures, Termination of Employment, Unfair Dismissal, Workplace Investigations Facebook, Misconduct, Out of Hours Conduct, Social Media

The Fair Work Commission has upheld a company’s decision to dismiss an employee, after the employee sent a pornographic video to a number of his colleagues through the Facebook Messenger app. The employee was employed by a large container terminal operator as a stevedore. He was dismissed, with payment in lieu of notice, some 10 […]

January 31, 2017

Explicit Facebook content provides valid reason for dismissal, but was termination harsh?

Archive Social Media, Termination

The Fair Work Commission has recently handed down another interesting unfair dismissal decision relating to an employee’s inappropriate use of social media. Facts In this case the Applicant posted to his public profile on Facebook a video that showed an obese woman in her underwear dropping her stomach onto the back of a man in […]

November 22, 2016

Social media use in the workplace back in the spotlight

Archive Dismissal, Facebook, Investigation, Social Media

After a recent ‘drought’ of cases relating to social media in the workplace, there are two recent decisions in the Fair Work Commission that will be of interest to employers. Both recent cases involve dismissals that relate to the relevant Applicants making controversial contributions on Facebook, albeit in very different circumstances. The ISIS case Background […]

February 7, 2014

Refusal to sign social media policy grounds for dismissal

Archive Social Media, Termination, Workplace Policies

In the recent case of Pearson v Linfox Australia Pty Ltd, the Fair Work Commission held that the employee’s dismissal was not harsh, unjust or reasonable, given the string of evidence relating to the employee’s failure to follow company policies and procedures, including his resistance to signing the company social media policy. The employee had […]

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EMPLOYMENT UPDATEWorkplace bullying, performance management, and dismissals being effected “in person”

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE

Workplace bullying, performance management, and dismissals being effected “in person”

EMPLOYMENT UPDATERecent employment law decisions provide timely guidance for employers

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE

Recent employment law decisions provide timely guidance for employers

EMPLOYMENT UPDATEOut of hours conduct on Social Media leads to Fair Dismissal

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE

Out of hours conduct on Social Media leads to Fair Dismissal

Explicit Facebook content provides valid reason for dismissal, but was termination harsh?

Social media use in the workplace back in the spotlight

Refusal to sign social media policy grounds for dismissal

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE
Workplace bullying, performance management, and dismissals being effected “in person”

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE
Recent employment law decisions provide timely guidance for employers

EMPLOYMENT UPDATE
Out of hours conduct on Social Media leads to Fair Dismissal