An "obstinate" worker's "barrage" of lengthy AI-generated "dense, repetitive and often rambling" emails and refusal to accept that his employer had resolved his complaints warranted his dismissal, the FWC has ruled.
A worker's conviction for a s-xual offence against a child he committed as a 16-year-old will be made public and exposed to his employer, after he failed in a court bid to have the matter treated as "spent".
FWC member and former ETU NSW branch secretary Bernie Riordan has thrown out a demand that he recuse himself from an anti-bullying case due to his alleged "connection" with a union leader named as a respondent, saying the tribunal would "grind to a halt" if it acceded to such requests.
The Fair Work Commission has found the Department of Veterans' Affairs did not force an assistant director to resign during a fitness‑for‑duty process, concluding he chose to quit rather than risk an adverse assessment.
The ETU has failed to halt a lockout it claimed a company unlawfully initiated in response to safety inspections at a major NSW workshop, with the FWC finding the employer gave ample warning it would close the gates if workers went on strike.
The FWC has reaffirmed that a job's inherent requirements do not need to be spelled out in employment contracts, upholding the dismissal of a Triple Zero employee who lost his security clearance for sharing information from a police database.
A senior FWC member has rebuked an experienced Telstra worker for wasting the tribunal's time on a "spiteful" anti-bullying bid based on "pedantic" complaints about his manager.
A database manager's "wise" choice at the time not to challenge his summary sacking for falsifying timesheets contrasted with his "ill advised" decision to contest it in the FWC, a tribunal member has observed.
A rope access technician has been ordered to pay $125,000 in costs after pursuing a failed underpayments and discrimination case described by the judge as "a textbook example of launching an action without reasonable cause".
The FWC has backed a ferry operator's sacking of a customer service worker who proved unable to meet the requirements of her role due to deep vein thrombosis, finding it could not offer "reasonable adjustments" to accommodate her incapacity.
