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Can employees donate some of their accrued personal/carer’s leave or annual leave to a colleague who is suffering financial difficulties due to illness?

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.

A Qantas employee who refused a directive to wear a face mask or shield was not constructively dismissed but chose to resign instead of complying. Read about the case here.

Does service as an apprentice count when calculating redundancy entitlements if the employee was made redundant when a fully qualified tradesperson? Learn more about redundancy entitlements here.

A company and a director were penalised for taking adverse action against a pregnant waitress. Read about the case here.

A dispute over whether an employee behaved aggressively toward a doctor at a work-authorised medical examination has been resolved in favour of the employee. 

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.