A FWC full bench has quashed a certificate sending a general protections case involving dismissal to court after a member failed to determine an employer's objection that a worker quit, before recent Fair Work Act amendments removed the requirement.
The High Court's refusal to hear an appeal against the Giggle for Girls v Tickle ruling means employers cannot exclude transgender women when they seek to hire women to address historic under-representation in the workforce, a human rights law expert says.
In a rare case of an employer challenging a union's "no" vote campaign materials, the FWC has ruled that the UWU had been entitled to present a two-tier wage system as a threat to existing workers, but misrepresented agreed leave entitlements.
The FWC has declined to delay a vote on an SDA-endorsed deal at a Coles automated distribution centre, despite finding the supermarket giant breached good faith bargaining obligations by not providing the draft agreement to another union.
The FWC has taken into account the financial pain of missed mortgage repayments and the disruption of being forced to take a drive-in, drive-out role in deciding to reinstate a mineworker who raised a fist towards a colleague after being "triggered" when called a "c—t".
The FWC has found Sydney Trains does not have to fund devices used to treat employees' sleep apnoea, but has suggested a review of arrangements with the employer's external health assessors after workers diagnosed with the condition had to pay up to $4000 for the anti-snoring technology.
A job that required four hours a day of travel did not amount to acceptable alternative employment for a redundant worker who had toiled almost entirely from home, the FWC has ruled.
The Federal Court has declined to temporarily restrain Atlassian from managing a neurodivergent worker's performance or sacking him, after finding no "real threat" of imminent termination of his employment.
In a significant decision about employers' redundancy obligations, the FWC has rejected MUA arguments that a marine service company could have "cobbled together" a new role out of various casual jobs to create a full-time position for a deckhand laid off after it lost a contract.
The working from home term in the clerical award will take effect next Monday, after a FWC full bench today confirmed its August ruling, with minor amendments to phrasing of the proposed new rights.
