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Lack of HR expertise did not excuse unreasonable sacking, FWA finds

In what is understood to be its first published determination under the new federal unfair dismissal laws, Fair Work Australia has awarded a sales employee $9,522 compensation after finding that his employer acted unreasonably in sacking him, despite its lack of HR expertise.

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