A FWC full bench has quashed a finding that a government-owned First Nations accommodation service dismissed a manager by breaking a "promise" to convert her non-continuing contract arrangement to permanent employment once she obtained Australian citizenship.
A labour law academic says there is a need to ask how Australia's IR system is so "fundamentally broken" that it incentivises the conduct evident in Qantas's decision to unlawfully outsource jobs to avoid bargaining, in circumstances where the record $90 million fine imposed yesterday will barely dent its resultant annual savings.
Saudi Arabia's Australian cultural mission has succeeded in sidelining a Federal Court judge from sitting on a full bench that is reviewing whether it is protected by diplomatic immunity from underpayment claims brought by 45 former employees.
A FWC full bench has dived into the legislative intent behind several key Fair Work Act provisions to find that a presidential member should have determined whether Corrections Victoria "in fact" dismissed a prison officer when it demoted and transferred him, instead of making her extension of time decision on the "assumption" it sacked him.
The High Court will on Wednesday hand down its ruling on what mining giant Peabody says is a "critical" test of the laws governing whether a redundancy is genuine.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a wharfie who tested positive for cocaine, rejecting employer arguments that the Commission's approach to appeals is "broadly wrong" and should involve reassessing a case rather than searching for errors in the original decision.
A full Federal Court has thrown out Serco's appeal against a finding that a senior manager sacked a trainer after he complained about the way she conducted a bullying investigation.
A schoolteacher "absurdly" sacked for yelling at students has won maximum compensation, after a FWC member retreated from his initial order to reinstate her.
A judge has binned the $7.5 million lawsuit of an academic claiming his "oppressor characteristics" made him a victim of a university's diversity policies, observing that while he might have "a very legitimate gripe", industrial laws are not the platform to advance his crusade against "woke ideology".
