A judge has rejected a sales director's claim that his employer sacked him within hours of him telling his manager he intended to take unpaid parental leave on the birth of his two surrogate children.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged a railway station manager's "ambitious" claim that a member went "wholly outside" the available options when she upheld his sacking for failing to disclose serious criminal charges.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a Big W employee sacked for colluding with his mother to steal a $400 hard drive, and then fabricating "a false and misleading story in an attempt to cover up his behaviour".
A senior FWC member in extending time by one day says a hospital security officer could not have been expected to ask a lawyer or psychiatrist he met while on remand to "trawl through his inbox" to find notification that he had been sacked.
The FWC has accepted a 48-seconds-late unfair dismissal claim from a worker convinced he filed it just before midnight on the last allowable day, after conceding that the tribunal's online processing quirks might have pushed it beyond the deadline.
The FWC has granted permission for the Department of Home Affairs to lawyer-up in an unfair dismissal case lodged by a self-represented former employee who once worked as a magistrate in Serbia.
A mechanic who overturned the rejection of his "late" unfair dismissal application has failed to convince a commissioner to recuse himself based on Australian Law Reform Commission unconscious bias research.
The FWC has affirmed that blaming late applications on "technical difficulties" without hard evidence is not enough to extend time, even when the margin is just 60 seconds.
The FWC has found that a company's failure to meet modern IR standards, including its HR manager's attempt to "retrospectively" dismiss a security investigator, provided the necessary exceptional circumstances to accept her late unfair dismissal application.
