Chucking a sickie: a workplace entitlement or grounds for disciplinary action?

Employee awarded over $1.5 million in damages after sustaining psychiatric injuries from sexual assault while at work

Employee found liable for sex discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace after touching a colleague and sending sexualised and derogatory email

Unfair Dismissal: Magdalina Kim v Embassy of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria [2016] FWC 4726

Unfair Dismissal: Peter Mulhall v Direct Freight (Qld) Pty Ltd [2016] FWC 58

Restraint of Trade: BGC Partners (Australia) Pty Ltd v Hickey [2016] NSWSC 90

Injunction: SBS v Corbett [2016] NSWSC 461

Unlawful discrimination: Garriock v Football Federation Australia [2016] NSWCATAD 63

Misleading or deceptive conduct and employment contract: Rakic v Johns Lyng Insurance Building Solution (Victoria) Pty Ltd [2016] FCA 430

Unfair dismissal and employment contract: Baird v Crowe Horwath (Aust) Pty Ltd [2016] FFCA 1379

Victimisation: Fire Brigade Employees Union of NSW v Fire and Rescue NSW 2016] NSWIRComm 1024

Partnership dispute: Wang v Rong [2015] NSWSC 1419