A judge has fired a shot across the bow of litigants relying on "sycophantic" AI to run their cases, observing that a delivery driver alleging adverse action came "perilously close" to being held in contempt after failing to produce evidence found to be either mischaracterised or non-existent.
The Federal Court will hear a former Health Department compliance evaluator's challenge to the FWC upholding his dismissal for engaging in persistent and unreasonable complainant conduct, including communications that left managers in fear of making adverse decisions.
The FWC has ordered Amazon to reinstate a worker dismissed for inappropriate Slack messages, finding the company's "casual" approach to using the platform includes "frequent jokes, swearing and venting".
A judge has rejected a supervisor's claims that managers and colleagues subjected her to years of s-xual harassment and discrimination based on her race, s-x and multiple pregnancies, placing significant weight on her failure to raise complaints with HR.
The FWC has endorsed AGL's grounds for rejecting a customer service consultant's flexible work request, but nevertheless ordered it to conduct a trial requiring her to attend the office for four hours on just 12 occasions over six months so she can continue to care for her incontinent, dementia-affected mother.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged its "deference" to a tribunal member's factual findings in upholding the reinstatement of a stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to co-workers.
An insolvent NT "space base" has been ordered to pay $2.3 million to its former chief executive, ousted shortly before NASA launched three commercial rockets from its Cape York site.
The FWC has confirmed an electrical contractor's pursuit of a multi-employer deal does not displace its obligation to negotiate a single enterprise agreement sought by the ETU, granting the union a PABO after finding the company breached good faith obligations.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has rejected a bid by the former chief operations officer of a technology start-up incubator to use its small claims jurisdiction to boost his employee incentive scheme payment by $85,500.
A Federal Court judge has awarded costs against retailer H&M after expressing bemusement at its reasons for seeking to suppress seemingly "anodyne" details of an adverse action case brought by its former Australia/NZ HR leader.
