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An employee pressing to solely work from home did not abandon or repudiate her employment by moving interstate against the employer's express wishes, the FWC has found.
The FWC has ordered an employer to allow a mother with two young children – one with special needs – to mostly work from her outer suburban home, rebuffing its call for her to attend its Sydney CBD office two days a week.
A 67-year-old manager's bid to squeeze his weekly hours into four days to pursue his dream of writing bestsellers is set to be assessed by the FWC, after a member found it met the statutory hurdle for flexible work requests.
A casino manager did not mean to suggest that Crown Melbourne would use its CCTV coverage to "get" a worker if she challenged its refusal of her flexible work application to care for her sick mother, when he pointedly talked about her being under constant surveillance, a tribunal has found.
The FWC has backed a mining company's denial of a worker's request for flexible work to enable her to care for her baby, in a decision finding fairness a "neutral consideration" where both parties have acted reasonably.
The mother of a young child had "understandable" reasons for wanting to make her part-time job completely remote so her partner could take up better opportunities interstate, but the FWC has found insufficient connection between her caring duties and her job to empower it to arbitrate the flexible work dispute.
The FWC has found that an employer had no reasonable option other than to dismiss a worker who persistently refused to comply with its hybrid working policy, based on his belief that his employment contract provided an "unconditional" right to work from home.
The FWC has wiped-out the redundancy entitlements of two visa workers who shunned an alternative role that would have enabled them to keep working from their shared apartment.
The FWC has backed an ASX-listed early education provider's decision to reject a worker's request for flexible arrangements to enable her to keep picking up her children from school each day, instead of moving to a less-accommodating rotating roster.
