A casino manager did not mean to suggest that Crown Melbourne would use its CCTV coverage to "get" a worker if she challenged its refusal of her flexible work application to care for her sick mother, when he pointedly talked about her being under constant surveillance, a tribunal has found.
The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked worker after a HR manager failed to explain why she took stress leave following his "unannounced" visit to her office to respond to a warning letter.
The FWC has ruled that an employer needed to demonstrate that a long-serving worker intentionally stole sweets she consumed at work to justify her summary dismissal, and ordered $24,000 in compensation.
The Federal Court has slugged a wharfie almost $10,000 for telling a colleague "You'll end up dead dog" if he kept escorting on-hire workers through a lawful picket during a strike at Fremantle port in 2021.
A driver sacked in part for placing p-rnography in a staff area and complaining about the number of work-related WhatsApp groups has won more than $6000 compensation, after the FWC criticised the employer's "relaxed" attitude to the dismissal process.
The former executive manager of an "effectively insolvent" disability services provider sacked while on workers compensation has been awarded $20,000, after the FWC found an administrator reached an "uninformed view" her job could be performed by subordinates.
An employer that refused to engage in the FWC's consideration of an unfair dismissal case has been ordered to pay $40,000 to a supervisor sacked for letting employees use a shackled emergency exit with an A4 printed "no entry, no exit" sign affixed to it.
An early childhood education trainee has won more than $10,000 compensation after the FWC found her employer had no reason to sack her by text based on "vague" examples of misconduct and failure to complete a qualification for which she had not yet been assessed.
A judge has flagged compensation of more than $600,000 for a former St Vincent de Paul Society senior manager unlawfully sacked following a "sham" HR probe, but declined to award more after finding she misled the court and exaggerated her incapacity.
