The FWC has found Qantas should have implemented a penalty "lesser than dismissal" for a long-serving flight attendant who stole alcohol from a flight then lied about it, but has rejected reinstating him because it might "condone" theft.
NSW Government electricity distributor Essential Energy will be able to proceed with up to 600 forced redundancies over the next 18 months, under a workplace determination made by an FWC full bench today.
The FWC has rejected an anti-bullying application by a rowing umpire after finding the association she volunteered for was not a trading corporation, despite some of its activities bearing the "necessary hallmarks of trading".
The FWC has rejected a bid for anti-bullying orders, finding a sales consultant perceived she had been bullied due to the workplace's sales culture and a "significant degree of hype and competition" among her colleagues.
A court has ordered ANZ, its former chief executive Philip Chronican and two other bank executives, including its chief HR officer, to pay the costs of part of a case brought by an employee who alleged they failed to make reasonable adjustments during her pregnancy.
A businessman who is accusing Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten of conspiring with corporate regulator ASIC while he was the AWU's Victorian branch secretary to stop a company takeover has failed to convince a Supreme Court judge that he should recuse himself.
The Australian Baseball League did not take adverse action against a team's general manager when it opted not to renew his contract, a court has found.
A software business manager must pay almost $10,000 in fines and $200,000 in costs for his copyright infringement and "flagrant" breaches of his employment contract when he copied his employer's confidential files and worked for a competitor during his gardening leave.
An FWC member ventured beyond the tribunal's private arbitration powers when he ruled on a dispute over the sacking of a probationary employee, a full bench has found.
An FWC full bench has quashed a ruling that stopped a worker from pursuing an anti-bullying application on the basis that he was not employed by a constitutional corporation.
