A tribunal has awarded a worker s-xually harassed and assaulted by her boss $140,000 in damages, based on the nature of the conduct and the continued "profound and significant detrimental impact" on her quality of life, plus $10,000 in aggravated damages and $26,500 in costs.
A school has failed to overturn orders to pay a former teacher maximum compensation after her dismissal for allegedly yelling at misbehaving students, after a FWC full bench found no reason to suggest any bias by the tribunal member or that his findings represented a "gross slur" on the employer's witnesses.
The FWC has ordered Qube to reinstate a stevedore sacked after his manager spotted him out for dinner while on leave to grieve a relative's death, finding the worker reasonably concluded it would be unsafe to attend his shift.
In a significant judgment on how far liability extends during industrial action, a court has found the MUA not responsible for a member telling a Qube shift manager "you'll end up dead dog" for crossing a picket line in 2021.
A labour law academic says there is a need to ask how Australia's IR system is so "fundamentally broken" that it incentivises the conduct evident in Qantas's decision to unlawfully outsource jobs to avoid bargaining, in circumstances where the record $90 million fine imposed yesterday will barely dent its resultant annual savings.
The Federal Court has today ordered Qantas to pay a $90 million fine - including $50 million to the TWU - for the Flying Kangaroo's unlawful outsourcing of the jobs of about 1800 ground handling employees, while it has criticised chief executive Vanessa Hudson for failing to appear to explain the airline's contrition.
A US video game company that told a senior FWC member "I wish the United States was as diligent as you guys" about unfair dismissals has been ordered to reinstate an Australian-based tester, after the tribunal applied the new "practical reality" test for employment relationships.
An employer that owes a worker more than $9000 in unpaid wages constructively dismissed her by underpaying her and consistently failing to pay her on time, if at all, the FWC has ruled, ordering it to pay $27,425 compensation.
The FWC has awarded indemnity costs against an IT company for its vexatious defence of an unfair dismissal claim that included a HR consultant's "astonishing" approach to the worker's new employer to establish his earnings.
A union delegate's "at best negligent and at worst foolhardy" practice of filling in his timesheets inaccurately did not warrant his summary dismissal, because his employer failed to establish that he deliberately set out to deceive it, the FWC has found.
