A surveillance operative has lost his unfair sacking case against Victoria's anti-corruption watchdog, after the FWC found his dangerous pursuit of a vehicle during a stakeout and his "dishonest" post-incident report provided two valid reasons.
A judge has slapped an $8000 penalty on a major Commonwealth department after expressing astonishment that it does not have a "human or technological" system in place to ensure it pays dismissed employees their correct entitlements.
The FWC has banned a paid agent from continuing to represent his client after finding him to blame for the worker's late dismissal challenge and that he sought to rely on a decision which "clearly does not exist" when arguing the application had been filed within time.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a nurse who "accidentally defibrillated" a patient, finding that she refused to take responsibility for the incident and rejecting claims her dismissal followed targeted bullying.
The High Court has unanimously rejected mining giant Peabody's challenge to a finding that it failed to satisfy workplace laws governing redundancies when not properly considering alternative roles for 22 workers dismissed in 2020, ruling that the FWC was within its rights to delve into options like replacing already-engaged contractors.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a long-serving Woolworths warehouse worker who took almost 100 days off in the last year alone, finding the supermarket giant's leniency over many years did not preclude it from switching to a stricter approach.
The Federal Court has put unions on notice about what to expect from status quo provisions in dispute resolution clauses, tossing out the AMWU's bid for declarations and penalties against Opal Packaging for changing the way drug and alcohol tests are conducted.
An employer that owes a worker more than $9000 in unpaid wages constructively dismissed her by underpaying her and consistently failing to pay her on time, if at all, the FWC has ruled, ordering it to pay $27,425 compensation.
The FWC has criticised a government department's premature destruction of CCTV footage that might have revealed the truth about a sacked bus cleaner's alleged theft of a handbag left on board.
The High Court will on Wednesday hand down its ruling on what mining giant Peabody says is a "critical" test of the laws governing whether a redundancy is genuine.
