The FWC has backed Whitehaven Coal's refusal to extend unpaid parental leave for a data reporting specialist, in a landmark decision referring to her "bespoke knowledge" and psychological concerns for colleagues dealing with burgeoning workloads.
A court has thrown out a worker's claim that his employer denied him a chance to defend allegations of intimidating a manager because "society today suggests that a female's word is true", finding instead that it sacked him because of performance issues.
In a case highlighting the judicial system's concerns about self-represented litigants using artificial intelligence, a judge has binned a neurophysiologist's "prolix" 191-page statement of claim and ordered her to "permanently delete" confidential information obtained from her former employer, partly out of fears it could find its way into the public domain if she is feeding it into AI.
The FWC has found that Woolworths' managers did not bully an employee when it put her under "undue pressure" as it sought to lift her department's performance, but suggested the retail giant undertake "more proactive intervention" to address issues in the workplace.
The FWC has rejected a highly-paid commercial leasing director's unfair dismissal claim, finding that while many of his duties aligned with a real estate award classification, his duties and responsibilities pushed him outside its scope.
A former people and culture GM has lost his novel interim reinstatement bid after alleging his employer victimised him for raising a series of s-x discrimination issues, accusing him of not being "a good cultural fit" and telling him the company does not need to do things "by the book".
After its CFMEU raid today, Victoria Police has revealed that its investigation relates to drug trafficking in addition to the "secret commissions" or "kickbacks", and has charged two of the five men it arrested.
