An Amazon on-hire worker has been reinstated and awarded almost $15,000 after a FWC member speculated that her threat to go to the tribunal over the reaction to announcing her pregnancy prompted her employer to "circle the proverbial wagons".
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.
The FWC has approved the amalgamation of the Australian Retailers Association and National Retail Association to form the Australian Retail Council, which will employ their combined heft in seeking to reduce members' compliance burden and holding overseas platforms to account.
The FWC has upheld Uber's deactivation of a long-serving driver after multiple complaints alleging drug- or alcohol-affected dangerous driving, as his unsafe practices breached his services agreement and he failed to mend his ways after repeated warnings.
The FAAA says it will no longer allow the "effluxion of time to be used as a weapon against workers", after protracted efforts to confirm a regional airline's cabin crew remained in favour of a majority support determination backfired in the FWC.
The FWC has ruled that an employee working in Saudi Arabia for a company based in that country has "no greater connection to Australia than employees in foreign lands sewing bikinis that will then be sold in Australian retail stores to women who will wear them on Bondi Beach".
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of long-serving AFL umpire and coach Frank Kalayzich, who claimed to be the victim of HR bias and a CCTV footage "ambush" after he manhandled a jogger at North Sydney Oval and frog-marched him to the exit gate.
A FWC full bench has upheld a $60,000-plus payout to a worker sacked after refusing to take a breath test, rejecting an employer's claim that the umpire unfairly denied its HR manager a chance to give evidence.
Industry super fund Cbus has been hit with a $23.5 million penalty for delaying payment of death benefits and total and permanent disability claims to thousands of members.
The Federal Court has found that disputes about same-job, same-pay protected rates should come before the FWC in the first instance, while it has agreed to stay court proceedings until the Commission determines a SJSP dispute involving Workpac on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine.
