The FWC has rejected an unvaccinated child protection officer's faith-based challenge to her sacking, despite claims that requiring her to get a COVID-19 jab is akin to asking a Muslim worker "to have injections that s/he considered not Halal".
The FWC has focused on the difference between "probability" and "possibility" in its reasons for rejecting a bid by a company providing search and rescue services to terminate protected industrial action on the basis that it could endanger lives.
A distinctly elementary counting error has led to a FWC full bench quashing the rejection of a non-union university deal and returning it to the member for reconsideration.
Two veteran truck drivers held by the High Court to be contractors rather than employees have today lost a cross-appeal seeking to establish an entitlement to decades of superannuation on the basis that they fell within the wider meaning of employee in the Super Guarantee Act.
The Federal Court is continuing to order CFMMEU officials to pay penalties out of their own pockets, rejecting arguments that two first offenders and one organiser no longer employed by the union should have their fines suspended.
In a significant ruling on its powers, the NSW IRC will reconsider a nurse's victimisation claims after overturning a finding it lacked the power to order that a disciplinary warning be removed from her file.
A FWC member has expressed amazement that an employer "pinned" alleged timesheet fraud on an employee when in fact his former manager performed the work.
The FWC has lambasted a senior government employee for their "reprehensible" attempts to prompt a witness by sending texts during a remote hearing of an unvaccinated worker's unfair dismissal case.
