The Federal Court has found that the CEPU breached a former organiser's employment contract but didn't take adverse action when it cut his pay after former southern states branch leader Kevin Harkins allegedly told him if he didn't like it he could "f-ck off and there's the door".
The FWBC is reviewing its legal options after the Federal Court rejected its claims that a construction company discriminated against a subcontractor it dropped because it did not have a union agreement.
The Federal Court has found a hospital did not take adverse action against an emergency department nurse, rejecting as baseless her claims it discriminated against her because she lodged a workplace dispute and complained about working "excessive" weekend shifts.
The Australian Baseball League did not take adverse action against a team's general manager when it opted not to renew his contract, a court has found.
A full Federal Court has dismissed regional airline Rex's attempts to challenge a pilots' union's standing to pursue an adverse action claim for non-members, concluding it is entitled to represent the industrial interests of eligible non-members.
A mining company cannot rely on secret footage obtained of an employee making "adverse" and "colourful" remarks about it as part of its subsequent disciplinary investigation, the Federal Court has ruled.
A court has penalised a medical surgery and its directors more than $50,000 for coercive threats to force a doctor to withdraw a complaint to the FWO and adverse action when the practice stopped paying him.
A court has made it clear that employers can be obliged to provide reasonable notice beyond requirements in the NES, in an adverse action case triggered by a general manager's sacking for comments about a major client's pregnant wife that "when you have a baby your wife is ripped from asshole to c--t and it never looks the same again".
A contracts manager and a team leader of a construction company that took adverse action against a subcontractor it refused to hire because its enterprise agreement wasn't endorsed by the CFMEU have been fined almost $2,000 each for the part they played in their employer's contraventions.
The Federal Court has ordered Rio Tinto subsidiary Hail Creek Coal to pay $1.3 million in compensation and interest for the adverse action it took against an injured mineworker.