The AWU and CFMEU have made "significant progress" in their long-standing demarcation disputes with the assistance of a former FWC member, while the FWC has protocols in place to prevent Commissioner Jennifer Hunt and Vice President Ingrid Asbury from attending the tribunal's Brisbane office at the same time, tribunal officers told a Senate Estimates hearing yesterday.
No evidence of "witch hunt"; Missing dismissal letter explained late application; 336 days an insurmountable barrier; No joy for sacked DUI worker on sub mission; and Poor mental health did not cover whole delay.
An employer had the right to sack one of the governing directors of its parent company after he chose to "go legal" instead of undergoing an independent medical examination to back up his doctor's claims that he could fulfil his sales role after a period of ill-health, the FWC has found.
Coles had a valid reason to sack a long-serving casual worker for restraining a teenage girl suspected of repeated shoplifting, but must pay $6500 compensation after a FWC finding that he did not knowingly breach the retailer's codes and policies in the "one-off" incident.
The FWC has recommended a university put a proposed academic workload model to a ballot despite finding it had not been developed in line with its enterprise agreement, while also declining to require the employer to apply it from 2024 as intended.
The FWC has backed an employer's refusal to grant an employee with caring responsibilities' request to work flexibly outside its peak operating hours, finding the proposed "bespoke arrangement" unreasonable.
The FWC has allowed a six-days-late general protections claim to proceed after accepting the delay partly resulted from domestic violence and the applicant's daughter attempting to take her own life, in a decision anonymised because of the "sensitive and confidential" nature of its details.
The FWC has declined to delay a vote on an SDA-endorsed deal at a Coles automated distribution centre, despite finding the supermarket giant breached good faith bargaining obligations by not providing the draft agreement to another union.
The FWC has taken into account the financial pain of missed mortgage repayments and the disruption of being forced to take a drive-in, drive-out role in deciding to reinstate a mineworker who raised a fist towards a colleague after being "triggered" when called a "c—t".
The FWC has found Sydney Trains does not have to fund devices used to treat employees' sleep apnoea, but has suggested a review of arrangements with the employer's external health assessors after workers diagnosed with the condition had to pay up to $4000 for the anti-snoring technology.
