The FWC has found Australia Post's failure to meet its service commitments to blame for a worker's late unfair dismissal claim, with his express mail held up in the tribunal's PO box despite it paying for a daily delivery service.
A senior FWC member has backed a university's approach to consultations ahead of planned job cuts, while observing its unsustainable financial position makes redundancies "inevitable".
The FWC has found that an employer had no reasonable option other than to dismiss a worker who persistently refused to comply with its hybrid working policy, based on his belief that his employment contract provided an "unconditional" right to work from home.
The FWC has delivered on its vow to expeditiously insert a far broader delegates' rights term in all awards in response to a full court last month finding its initial attempt "impermissibly confined", a judgment that prompted the Commission to thank parties for their patience because of resultant delays to approval of agreements.
The Queensland Teachers' Union's federal entity has entered an enforceable undertaking with the FWC after failing to conduct elections for its branch council and executive, despite numerous prompts from the regulator.
The FWC is considering the remedy for an unfairly dismissed labourer after the death of his employer, who sacked him via text message because he lodged a WorkCover claim and planned to take time off to recover from a workplace injury.
The CEPU's South Australian branch has failed to convince Commissioner Chris Platt in his final ruling before retirement that an employer breached its good faith bargaining obligations by putting a single-enterprise agreement to a vote after the union sought a supported bargaining authorisation.
BHP's coal mining and in-house labour hire entities are seeking special leave to challenge the Full Federal Court ruling that upheld same-job, same-pay orders the FWC made for the resources titan's Bowen Basin mines.
An "outstanding" teacher sacked for messaging students and giving them lifts has been awarded compensation after the FWC found that his dismissal disproportionate, given its "catastrophic" consequences.
A FWC full bench is giving an employer time to reconsider its refusal to provide an undertaking, while the tribunal contemplates using its new powers to unilaterally alter agreements, after finding on appeal that a recently-approved deal failed the BOOT.
