A Perth hire company has been ordered to pay $25,500 in penalties after sacking a mobile crane operator when he asked about unpaid overtime and threatened to involve the union.
A national charity has had its jurisdictional objection to an employee's unfair dismissal claim rejected after the FWC found an employment contract contained "ambiguity and uncertainty" about whether it was for a fixed period.
In a rare decision to permit an appeal in a dismissal dispute, an FWC full bench has concluded that a presidential member may have wrongly discounted a reason for the late submission of the appellant's original claim.
The FWC has found an unqualified engineer earning in excess of the high income threshold can pursue her unfair dismissal claim because she was covered under the relevant mining award.
A scientist whose seniority weighed against her in competing for internal vacancies at one of Australia's leading cancer institutes has been awarded 5.4 weeks' pay after the FWC found insufficient efforts were made at redeployment before her position was terminated.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has warned accessorial liability for workplace breaches is now being extended beyond employers and company directors to those working in human resources, management and recruitment.
A BMW dealership has been ordered to pay $25,000 to a former employee who accessed pornography and "lifestyle" sites, after the FWC found procedural failures could have altered the decision to sack him.
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The FWC has found there were always going to be "winners and losers" when Coles abolished night shifts at a distribution centre in NSW, rejecting claims the company failed to comply with consultation provisions set out in the enterprise agreement.
A senior ATO officer's dismissal for refusing to perform duties has been upheld by a FWC full bench, despite claims he lacked the capacity to do the work.
