The FWC has praised an organisation's handling of unfounded bullying allegations but has recommended that employers engage independent third parties to conduct investigations when employees "vigorously assert" that internal reviews will be compromised.
The FWC has found it reasonable for Coles Group Supply Chain Pty Ltd to dismiss a worker who tested positive to cannabis but claimed to have consumed it outside what he believed to be the "window of detection".
A Catholic school principal bullied a teacher when she misinformed her about the status of her long service leave request, directed her to participate in an induction for "new staff" after her return from leave and assigned her a mentor with less teaching experience, the FWC has found.
Verbal unfair dismissal settlement is binding; Micromanager's bullying justified his dismissal; and Federal agency's consultation clause not just "aspirational", says bench.
Unions are pushing for the introduction of a threshold "better off overall test" for employers that are seeking to join the national Comcare workers' compensation scheme.
Fortescue Metals Group has failed in a bid to block the CEPU from seeking a declaration that it unduly delayed entry to its WA branch secretary after a 2013 workplace fatality, with a court finding WA's non-harmonised OHS laws are no barrier to entering sites under the Fair Work Act.
Qantas Catering employees are obliged to "work with, buddy and train" labour hire employees to do the same work they perform, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
The CFMEU, CEPU and three individual organisers have been fined a combined total of almost $95,000 for encouraging workers at the Ichthys LNG project to stop work and disrupt a "critical" concrete pour in protest at the project's allegedly inadequate "park and ride" facilities.
FWC accepts six-minutes-late dismissal claim; Creative crane driver fails to win job back; FWC member showed no real or apparent bias, says bench; and Tribunal douses smoker's bid to win job back.
The FWC has made an indemnity costs order of more than $18,000 against a former Toll Holdings employee who built his unfair dismissal claim "almost exclusively" on a lie and a fabricated drug test result.