The Federal Court will hear a former Health Department compliance evaluator's challenge to the FWC upholding his dismissal for engaging in persistent and unreasonable complainant conduct, including communications that left managers in fear of making adverse decisions.
The FWC has ordered Amazon to reinstate a worker dismissed for inappropriate Slack messages, finding the company's "casual" approach to using the platform includes "frequent jokes, swearing and venting".
A FWC full bench has acknowledged its "deference" to a tribunal member's factual findings in upholding the reinstatement of a stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to co-workers.
An insolvent NT "space base" has been ordered to pay $2.3 million to its former chief executive, ousted shortly before NASA launched three commercial rockets from its Cape York site.
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".
An unfairly sacked concreter has been denied reinstatement or compensation, after the FWC accepted that his threats of violence scared his colleagues and their spouses.
The FWC has backed Amazon's sacking of an injured worker who refused to have an independent medical examination, while another employer's income protection policy has weighed in favour of finding it not unfair to dismiss an incapacitated diesel fitter.
In a sign of the FWC's growing frustration with not just the number of applications flowing across its desk but the prevalence of applicants dropping off the map, a member has lamented a worker's "disconcerting" failure to engage with the tribunal and the concomitant waste of valuable "time and resources".
A recruiter has failed to win $50,000 compensation from Bluescope Steel for allegedly sacking him following his complaints about being bullied by its HR team, after a judge took into account that he had previously lied to the FWC and "embellished" his résumé.
