The FWC will permit a security company to use telephone recordings of worker's allegedly "extremely offensive" conversations with colleagues in defending his unfair dismissal claim, finding it in line with telecommunications interception laws and surveillance clauses in his contract.
The Federal Court has restrained a Federal agency from sacking an employee it accused of lying about the disciplinary action that led to her resigning from her previous APS job.
The FWC has found that a Boeing subsidiary unfairly dismissed an unvaccinated worker because it should first have completed its consideration of whether it could redeploy him.
The FWC has today approved an agreement for the second time, after a "computer glitch" corrupted the formatting of the deal endorsed by the tribunal the first time around.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a worker sacked after he took unapproved leave to visit a sick relative overseas and filed his unfair dismissal application 15 days late.
The FWC says a proposed amalgamation of the Australian Hotels Association and the Accommodation Association of Australia will give the latter a "strong voice" within the merged employer body and held that only its members will have to vote on it in a ballot opening next month.
The FWC has found that the Victorian lawyers for an ACT worker who lived in NSW made her unfair dismissal in time, after they delayed her application by three days because of public holidays and a weekend.
A full Tasmanian Supreme Court has found a man injured while walking his dog had an entitlement to workers compensation because he was on-call at the time, at a location required by his employer.
The FWC has ordered a worker's reinstatement and criticised his employer for its "severely flawed" dismissal process after it used a traffic violation as a "golden opportunity" to dismiss him for riling management by engaging in "covert" and "unlawful" industrial action.
