The FWC has suspended the entry permit of a CFMMEU organiser held to have flagrantly abused his power and urged workers to drive into him while he claimed to be responding to safety concerns, with another official also facing the temporary loss of his permit.
The FWC has backed the dismissal of a medically unfit warehouse worker no longer able to fulfil the inherent requirements of his role, finding his employer had no obligation to engage with a private eye he hired to conduct a workplace investigation on his behalf.
The FWC has acceded to an employee's request to terminate a moribund security agreement covering a 500-strong workforce, after weighing conflicting views from employees about whether it should be scrapped.
In the first case of its kind against Woolworths, the retailer has today been ordered to pay an unregistered union $10,000 after a court found the supermarket breached workplace laws by pressuring a delegate who raised concerns about car park safety.
A law firm has won a rare indemnity costs order against a solicitor found to have strung out an unfair dismissal case so he could agitate underpayment claims.
A FWC presidential member has issued a 10-point rebuttal of COVID-19-related arguments put by a sacked unvaccinated worker, to help her to consider whether to proceed with positions likely to be "irrelevant" in her unfair dismissal claim and that have been "emphatically rejected in numerous cases" before the tribunal and courts.
A mining equipment manufacturer that admitted to wrongly sacking a warehouse worker for failing to comply with a government COVID-19 vaccine mandate that did not apply to her must pay more than $33,000 compensation, after the FWC slashed her payout by half.
The creator of a Hitler parody video mocking BP's bargaining process who won compensation exceeding $200,000 for his unfair sacking has lost a "stealth" bid to recoup extra pay he would have earned but for the company's decision to revoke a planned promotion.
In a decision casting doubt on the FWC's ability to commission the AEC to conduct MSD ballots, a senior member says it would be better if the IEU confers directly with workers at a small crèche after deciding to exclude their manager from coverage of a proposed agreement.
The FWC has reinstated a senior Virgin flight attendant accused of tardiness, stealing snacks, sleeping and watching a movie while on duty, finding pandemic-driven loads on HR delayed the airline's investigation and contributed to procedural fairness deficiencies.
