A NDIS-registered medical provider's "frivolous" spending on "staff wellbeing" birthday celebrations and "recklessness" in hiring new staff while struggling to meet a speech pathologist's redundancy entitlements has helped undo its bid to slash her payout.
Major players in the construction industry are rallying to stymie an urgent TWU application to use transport supply chain laws to pressure them as customers of concrete suppliers, ahead of talks in the FWC this morning.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an experienced electrician burned by a fireball, factoring in his failure to wear a face shield and rejecting his claim that "delirium" made him fudge a risk assessment.
The FWC has upbraided an early learning facility for seeking to override a part-time employee's right to predictable hours that the employer found "commercially or operationally inconvenient".
The need for legislation to enshrine two days a week of working from home for all employees is "not clear", as many employers and workers have now found a hybrid "sweet spot" without any government intervention, according to the Productivity Commission.
The former national HR manager of the country's biggest tug operator made a "snap decision based on... irritation" when she chose to unlawfully dismiss a senior port manager because he rejected a new role central to restructuring plans, a court has found.
A senior FWC member has backed a university's approach to consultations ahead of planned job cuts, while observing its unsustainable financial position makes redundancies "inevitable".
The MEU has sought High Court leave to intervene in the Coal LSL challenge to a finding that Orica's obligation to make contributions to the scheme on behalf of shotfirers ceased in 2022 when it sold a separate business providing services to underground mines.
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 Queensland Teachers' Union's federal entity has entered an enforceable undertaking with the FWC after failing to conduct elections for its branch council and executive, despite numerous prompts from the regulator.
