An employer failed to "adhere to basic standards of decency" when it made an employee on parental leave redundant in an email, without consultation, in "a case that exemplifies the benefits" of having some form of "keeping in touch" system during parental leave, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench says it suspended industrial action afflicting Sydney's rail network partly to give the RTBU's leadership a chance to "re-establish a greater degree of control" amid suggestions some workers have been going rogue in pushing for a more radical approach.
A worker resigned of his own volition because he blamed the death of his dog on his employer, after alleged underpayments that he claimed prevented him from being able to afford the surgery needed to save its life, the FWC has found.
The FWC has, at the same time as rejecting the unfair dismissal claim of a university lecturer who "relentlessly" pursued a personal relationship with a student, held that he s-xually harassed her and that his dishonesty provided a further valid reason to sack him.
The "clear and unambiguous" wording of a separation certificate confirmed an on-hire worker's dismissal, regardless of the labour supplier's intention, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A company that sprang a meeting on workers at which it compelled them to collectively and immediately select bargaining representatives has failed to win approval of a new deal, with the FWC finding the employer "misled" them.
A full Federal Court has taken legislative changes into account in throwing out the UFU's bid to quash a FWC full bench finding no terms had been agreed between the union and Fire Rescue Victoria upon which to base an intractable bargaining workplace determination.
The FWC has overruled an employer's resistance to a working parent's request to work an extra day a fortnight at home to care for his toddler daughter until she reaches two years of age, while rejecting its claims that it would set a precedent for the remainder of its workforce.
A Federal Court judge has slammed a stockbroker founder's "outrageous" behaviour in the course of dismissing a damages claim against two former employees who enticed clients to a rival, while separately finding that he unlawfully deducted almost $50,000 from one advisor's pay to cover travel and entertaining costs.
In a warning for employers about properly educating workers on workplace policies, the FWC has reinstated an employee dismissed for breaching drug and alcohol rules, because the major company failed to ensure its workforce understood a key change.
