Browsing: Case law (549 items)


Karmic call not threatening: FWC

A hairdresser made an "appeal to karmic intervention" rather than a threat in a "profane" barb she directed at her manager, the FWC has found.


FWC upholds sacking for flouting hybrid work policy

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.



Bitter pill as Baxter ordered back to bargaining table

The FWC has ordered a pharmaceutical company back to negotiations with the UWU for a first enterprise agreement to cover operational employees in non-managerial roles at its Brisbane manufacturing facility, after finding it breached good faith bargaining by offering employees inducements to vote against enterprise talks.


On-hire diabetic cleared for disability discrimination case

A type-1 diabetic's late general protections application alleging disability discrimination can proceed after his ASX-listed labour hire employer conceded the employment relationship had "dwindled and ceased" due to his work restrictions.


"Pay equity" does not require "amputating" senior men

An employer repudiated the contracts of male managers and dismissed them when it reduced their classification levels and wages to parity with female co-workers for "pay equity" reasons, as the demotions involved substantial reductions in remuneration, the FWC has found.


Challenge to WFH compensation ruling

An employer has cleared the first hurdle in challenging a finding that an employee who tripped over a self-erected puppy fence while working from home is entitled to compensation, with a full bench majority remitting the matter for redetermination.


Tribunal rejects neurodivergent worker's bias claim

The Queensland IRC has rejected a claim that the State health deparment's promotion and interview process indirectly discriminated against neurodivergent people because of systemic barriers that prevented them fully participating, but has suggested it provide further training for selection panels.


DEI advisor forced to resign: Tribunal

A DEI specialist found by the FWC to have been left with no option but to resign claims power company Endeavour Energy directed her to sideline an Indigenous man she selected to chair a NAIDOC week event, so that its head of organisational development could host it to "raise her professional profile".


Misconduct warranted ambo's relocation: Tribunal

After a FWC full bench finding that bullying must be assessed within a "spectrum of seriousness", a member has affirmed in redetermining a paramedic's challenge to a 350km transfer that his treatment of a subordinate constituted serious misconduct.


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