The FWC has cleared a general manager's late unfair sacking claim to proceed after a law firm's graduate employee adviised him to file it in the wrong jurisdiction, finding it "unreasonable and unrealistic" to assume the GM had been in a good position to identify the correct forum.

The FWC's one-stop shop for dismissal cases will undergo a major expansion in mid-October, the tribunal announced today.

Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.

The FWC will early next year hear FAAA and TWU bids to boost flight attendants' pay up to 60% by overhauling the modern award, relying on gender-based undervaluation and changes to the nature of their work.

A bargaining dispute between the FSU and the Reserve Bank heads to the FWC today, as the union seeks to head off a second-round offer it believes will be unchanged from an original proposal voted down in July.

The FWC has ordered an employer to withdraw its offer of a "customer service continuity payment" for employees working through protected industrial action.

Men in the finance sector are starting to take paid parental leave at similar or higher rates than women when employers offer gender-neutral schemes, according to a FSU report that calls for the scrapping of primary and secondary carer-based models.

The Federal Court has run out of patience with a litigious solicitor whose numerous cases include "scandalous" allegations about a law firm and a FWC member, effectively blocking him from pursuing any further claims, to safeguard the legal system's "finite resources".

Psychosocial hazards are more damaging when workers feel that speaking up will not lead to change, academics have found in a new study.

A FWC full bench has thrown out a nurse's challenge to his sacking, endorsing earlier findings that he improperly used personal leave to campaign in a union election.