In a case involving one lawyer accusing another of being "either breathtakingly stupid or complicit in the ongoing fraud", a Federal Court judge has today refused to throw out an adverse action case brought by a storeperson sacked for refusing to wear a mask.
The FWC in upholding the sacking of a worker who ran late every day for nearly four years and kept failing to use its bundy system has also identified her fake vaccination certificate and recommended referring her alleged offence to authorities.
The TWU is seeking the reinstatement of an Amazon Flex courier claimed to have been kicked off the retail behemoth's platform without notice or explanation, in a case testing general carrier provisions in the NSW IR Act while the union calls for equivalent federal protections.
The FWC has acceded to an employee's request to terminate a moribund security agreement covering a 500-strong workforce, after weighing conflicting views from employees about whether it should be scrapped.
In the first case of its kind against Woolworths, the retailer has today been ordered to pay an unregistered union $10,000 after a court found the supermarket breached workplace laws by pressuring a delegate who raised concerns about car park safety.
A law firm has won a rare indemnity costs order against a solicitor found to have strung out an unfair dismissal case so he could agitate underpayment claims.
A FWC presidential member has issued a 10-point rebuttal of COVID-19-related arguments put by a sacked unvaccinated worker, to help her to consider whether to proceed with positions likely to be "irrelevant" in her unfair dismissal claim and that have been "emphatically rejected in numerous cases" before the tribunal and courts.
A mining equipment manufacturer that admitted to wrongly sacking a warehouse worker for failing to comply with a government COVID-19 vaccine mandate that did not apply to her must pay more than $33,000 compensation, after the FWC slashed her payout by half.
The creator of a Hitler parody video mocking BP's bargaining process who won compensation exceeding $200,000 for his unfair sacking has lost a "stealth" bid to recoup extra pay he would have earned but for the company's decision to revoke a planned promotion.
The FWO has lost its appeal against a finding that four allegedly underpaid delivery drivers were independent contractors rather than employees, the judge observing that the case was "much harder" to decide than the recent High Court ruling that guided him.
