A court has rejected a probationary employee's claim that a public sector employer sacked her because she has a disability, took sick and carer's leave and lodged an anti-bullying claim, accepting that the employer simply decided she did not have the skills and aptitude to perform her job.
The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
The FWC has taken fewer than 250 words to dismiss a worker's anti-bullying application, finding his complaints about "negative remarks" and being held to a dress code by a NDIS provider "devoid of merit".
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 ordered quarrelling parties to refrain from using artificial intelligence tools in their communications, to avoid unnecessarily "lengthy" and "accusatory" AI-prepared emails.
FWC has rejected a registered nurse's claim that an aged care home general manager bullied her by reducing her hours and allegedly banning her from picking up extra shifts when she complained of "burnout".
A sacked teacher has failed to revive his anti-bullying application despite claiming a female colleague s-xually harassed him when she called him "Mr Baldy".
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a nurse who attempted to start a competitor to an ANMF branch, finding that he called in sick and used the time to campaign, repeatedly complained about his colleagues and HR without foundation, and had been "indiscriminately rude".