The FWC has upbraided an ASX-listed company for refusing to push a disciplinary meeting back two days so the "overwhelmed" employee could be supported by a union representative.
The FWC has upheld BHP's dismissal of a track maintenance coordinator who failed to conduct the correct level of risk assessment when a section of rail bowed out on its Pilbara network, rejecting claims he had not been properly educated about the company's guidelines.
The FWC has backed the actions of an aviation services company that kept a security guard on standby as it sacked a long-serving administration worker with a short history of volatile outbursts.
The FWC has reinstated an immigration detention centre officer sacked for consuming alcohol before an unscheduled shift, finding his behaviour fell short of serious misconduct.
A wine producer has been ordered to pay a 72-year-old former sales manager more than $15,000 in compensation after an FWC finding that an external "dispute resolution" consultant contributed to a flawed dismissal process.
A gym must compensate a martial arts instructor for taking the "unnecessarily harsh" step of summarily sacking him, despite the FWC finding it within its rights to give him his marching orders for constantly using his phone while supervising classes.
In a decision noting that workers cannot hold employers to promises in a "changing world" in which they must move with the times, the FWC has held that a call centre had a valid reason to sack a contact officer who refused to learn new skills, but a "ruthless" process made it unfair.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of an Energy Australia employee who told one colleague she could not get pregnant due to her sexuality and suggested to another that he was related to Deepak Chopra because of his Indian descent.
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The FWC has found "overly harsh and unreasonable" the demotion of a correctional officer for using excessive force on a detainee, while upholding his employer's misconduct findings.
