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Federal Court quashes work function dismissal ruling

A Federal Court full bench majority has found an AIRC member failed to accord procedural fairness to a worker when he took 12 months to decide that his "Bart Simpson defence" for his conduct at an out-of-hours work function lacked credibility and was evasive.

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