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If casual employees leave work because they are sick, are they entitled to a minimum payment? Learn more about payments for casual employees here.

A court has found an employer manufactured a redundancy to get rid of an employee. 

The latest employee sentiment report for quarter one 2022 has remuneration as a key priority whereas wellbeing, not so important.

An employer with a “zero tolerance” drug/alcohol policy dismissed an employee who refused to provide a urine sample on medical grounds.

If an employee is absent from work due to a long-term illness or injury, can you dismiss them?

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.

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".

Do you think it’s a defence against liability for sexual harassment to say ‘We didn’t mean it that way’? Read about an employer who disregarded how a worker might feel about having her photo used.

An airline employee’s dismissal was ruled unfair by the Fair Work Commission after it was found that the airline’s alcohol and fatigue policies were unclear, inconsistently applied, and difficult to access. The employee, who had taken steps to ensure he was fit for work, was reinstated.