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A worker who suffered a psych injury after being criticised on Facebook has failed in his bid to win compensation.

When an employer rejected an employee’s workers comp claim for a psychological injury, it relied on the ‘reasonable management action’ defence. Read why a commission ruled in the worker’s favour.

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

The Fair Work Commission has berated an employer and ordered it to reinstate a worker sacked for cocaine use.

Two shift workers who were made redundant after rejecting offers to relocate and change their shift rosters have had their entitlement to redundancy pay preserved by the Fair Work Commission (FWC), after the employer had applied to reduce it to nil.

The Fair Work Commission ruled that a text message composed using ChatGPT to terminate a legal assistant's employment was a termination at the employer's initiative, not abandonment, as the employee was legitimately on leave.

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.

With extensive media coverage surrounding the release of "gender pay gap" data by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), it's important to understand what the data actually demonstrates.

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has found that his sacking was harsh and unreasonable despite a worker’s failure to report an incident. Check out the FWC’s reasoning.