An ICT company will have to compensate a worker it immediately dismissed because she copied clients into an email announcing that she intended to resign.
The FWC's review of protected action ballot agents has rejected AREEA's objections to the continuing endorsement of an ACTU-linked agent, but cancelled the approval of one agent that has been liquidated and brought forward its re-consideration of the standing of two agents that are yet to run a vote.
The FWC has cleared the way for the CFMEU to re-employ a "removed" official once fined for failing to wait for managers to escort him around a construction site before asking "unremarkable and proper" safety-related questions.
Workers should not think that independent contractors operate in some "unbridled utopia, free from all direction and control", a senior FWC member has observed in tossing out a psychologist's general protections case.
The FWC is seeking feedback on its provisional view that it should order Secure Parking to reinstate a full-time compliance manager to a part-time position, finding Japanese-owned company unfairly dismissed him during a cost-cutting redundancy round.
The SDA has gladly dropped multiple bids for supported bargaining at McDonald's stores and franchise outlets after the FWC granted the fast food giant a nationwide single interest authorisation, clearing the way for voluntary multi-employer bargaining.
A worker has resigned from Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital following a FWC finding that her employer can continue with a disciplinary process, after police charged her over a protest at an Israeli restaurant and a doxxing organisation revealed her identity.
Businesses having trouble interpreting or implementing FWC orders requiring reimbursement of contractors' increased fuel costs will have a chance to state their case on Friday, the tribunal said today.
A senior FWC member should not have discounted a doctor's evidence that a worker possessed the "sound mind" required to understand the consequences of his resignation, a full bench has found.
A FWC presidential member has made it clear that he has no patience for applicants who go "incommunicado" once a case begins, asserting that the Commission has the right to "control its own process" to avoid "pointless time wasting".
