The FWC has thrown out a real estate employee's claim that her employer unfairly summarily dismissed her for sending herself confidential information and setting up a competing business.
A FWC member has thrown out the dispute application of a disability support worker who showed an "abject disregard" for the tribunal and deliberately flouted its direction not to contact a former client.
A legal practice has failed to block another firm from representing a former employee, after it argued that a barrister who once worked for both of them might have shared crucial insights on his way through to the Bar.
The FWC has warned the CFMEU against a "burger with the lot" approach to pressing its objections to a proposed construction industry deal, after rejecting an employer's complaints that the union had no involvement in bargaining and has no members covered.
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".
The FWC has rejected CEPU claims that Queensland Rail will use data from its new GPS-linked vehicle management system to performance-manage employees who brake harshly and accelerate or corner too rapidly.
Two food delivery service founders have won more than $150,000 in compensation after their sacking by a company chair whose "total disregard" for procedural fairness made it unlikely he would be swayed by HR advice.
A Melbourne Water employee's challenge to his sacking has backfired after a court rejected his contract-breach case and ordered him to repay $12,000 in "reverse-engineered" car mileage claims.
A PSA South Australia industrial officer who claimed the union decided against extending her contract because she complained about a bullying colleague has lost her adverse action claim.
