A Salvation Army recruitment agency worker accused of threatening to break colleagues' fingers if they adjusted the air conditioning has failed to convince the FWC that her stress disorder and a delayed dismissal letter justified an extension of time.
The FWC has approved the union-opposed termination of a clothing company's enterprise deal after observing it was not an "intellectual stretch" for an employee to correctly cast a vote that would have halted it.
Federal Treasury has told the FWC's minimum wage panel to be cautious in accepting predictions of a "very strong snapback" in the unemployment rate, as the economy re-opens after the coronavirus pandemic.
An economist has become embroiled in a second workplace dispute after dismissing a real estate office manager in circumstances found to be neither a genuine redundancy nor justified by alleged misconduct.
The FWC has today upbraided the SDA for its poor management of a conflict of interest at failed retailer Harris Scarfe, when the union's national executive decided to delay filing a member's unfair dismissal claim to avoid jeopardising the company's sale and preserve 1200 jobs.
The MBAV this year applied to revoke a 30-year-old exemption that enabled it to conduct its own elections, after an inquiry by the ROC into the conduct of the employer body's 2018 ballot.
An HR manager has failed to convince the FWC that a newly-merged company didn't genuinely scrap his role, while his refusal to move from his home town cruelled any redeployment opportunities.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a World Cup footballer whose pursuit of a coaching career undercut his role with one of the sport's governing bodies.
An FWC member has refused to replace an incorrectly-provided draft of a deal with the employee-endorsed final version, finding it should be left to a full bench to consider the employer's "obvious error" in her earlier approval of the agreement.