A former Accenture ER manager will have a chance to replead an adverse action case in which she alleges she spent years pressing the global professional services firm to address potential exposure to multi-million dollar claims for unpaid overtime before it sacked her for supposedly "preventing" further analysis of the issue.
A FWC presidential member has made it clear that he has no patience for applicants who go "incommunicado" once a case begins, asserting that the Commission has the right to "control its own process" to avoid "pointless time wasting".
A FWC presidential member has blasted the "exceptionally and embarrassingly poor" service provided by a law firm held responsible for filing a garbage collector's general protections matter 125 days' late.
A Federal Court judge will this month deal with intersecting adverse action and breach of contract claims from former KIIS FM co-hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson, with the latter also accusing the network of failing to protect her from alleged bullying and psychosocial hazards following her previous complaints.
The Federal Court has slugged a wharfie almost $10,000 for telling a colleague "You'll end up dead dog" if he kept escorting on-hire workers through a lawful picket during a strike at Fremantle port in 2021.
A senior FWC member has told an employer he would "welcome" a costs application after rejecting an AI-assisted general protections bid in which a worker relied on "incoherent" legal arguments and falsehoods to reframe his resignation as a constructive dismissal.
A Westfield community engagement assistant's belief the company made her work "excessively hard" did not mean it forced her to resign, the FWC has found.
The Albanese Government is considering scrapping a "disastrous" requirement for the FWC to decide whether workers have been sacked before conciliating dismissal-related general protections claims, as part of its response to the tribunal's ballooning workload.
A rope access technician has been ordered to pay $125,000 in costs after pursuing a failed underpayments and discrimination case described by the judge as "a textbook example of launching an action without reasonable cause".
A judge has flagged compensation of more than $600,000 for a former St Vincent de Paul Society senior manager unlawfully sacked following a "sham" HR probe, but declined to award more after finding she misled the court and exaggerated her incapacity.
