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An employer has been forced to compensate a worker after the Fair Work Commission ruled his dismissal was unfair.

A cafe thought it was okay to sack a young worker because he phoned in sick with a chest infection.

An employee who reacted badly to vaccinations was validly dismissed, but redeployment/adjustments should have been considered first, a tribunal has ruled.

Understand your liability as an employer if an employee were to contract the coronavirus at work and what this means for workers compensation claims.

Who bears the burden of proof when an employer argues that a worker is not entitled to compensation for a stress disorder because his condition arose from reasonable management action?

Considering she’d punched a co-worker in the face, a woman’s dismissal was not unfair, a commission has found.

An employer failed in its duty of care to protect an employee from retaliation after he reported an assault by a supervisor, a court has ruled.

When a worker with numerous safety complaints posted comments on political and government matters on Twitter, contravening his employer’s code of conduct, he was sacked.

A bank employee who requested to work from home permanently for fear of contracting COVID has lost her request to permanently work from home, with the Fair Work Commission finding her application "simply unreasonable".

A church worker sacked for obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination can pursue her unfair dismissal claim, after the Fair Work Commission ruled she was an employee.