The FWC has noted the proliferation of a business model serving as a "risk shifting exercise" for host employers, in rejecting a labour hire worker's unfair dismissal claim.
Mining giant Peabody has won special leave from the High Court to challenge a full Federal Court finding that it did not genuinely make workers redundant when it failed to consider whether it could redeploy workers to jobs performed by contractors.
A security company has been ordered to pay more than $40,000 compensation to a former manager after the FWC found its owner/chief executive pressured him to sign a new contract with higher sales targets and broader constraint clauses and then told him to "finish up" when he refused.
The FWC has backed Ambulance Victoria's decision to transfer a "socially inept" paramedic 350 kilometres away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a convicted child s-x offender sacked after his employer discovered his use of a pseudonym to conceal his past, rejecting a psychologist's "contradictory" evidence about his capacity to complete the necessary forms.
The FWC has upheld a law firm's dismissal of a solicitor accused of "gaming" its timekeeping system to boost a junior colleague's billable hours and telling an opposing practitioner his client was a "c-nt".
The FWC has moved a step closer to curtailing the lowest pay classification in awards from January 1, inviting comment on draft determinations that ensure it is used only for a short period of induction and training.
The FWC has backed the Commonwealth Bank's sacking of an "insubordinate" worker who argued it could not discipline him for pummelling his manager with abusive text messages because he sent them outside of working hours.
A UK IR tribunal has awarded a teacher £61,000 ($118,000) for disability discrimination and unfair dismissal, after her employer failed to make reasonable adjustments for symptoms of menopause and anxiety and then dismissed her for incapacity, but failed to consider suitable alternative roles.
