A sacked teacher has failed to revive his anti-bullying application despite claiming a female colleague s-xually harassed him when she called him "Mr Baldy".
A senior FWC member has addressed a First Nations worker's concerns that Services Australia subjected her to an unfair performance management plan, overly monitored her, and failed to provide cultural safety, before leaving no option but to resign.
A project manager who argued that putting a Ferrari badge on a Toyota "doesn't make it a Ferrari" can pursue an adverse action case after the FWC found his employer labelled him an independent contractor merely to facilitate his request for his pay to go into a trust account.
A refrigerated transport company had good reason to sack a driver who allowed more than $70,000 of ice cream to melt during a six-hour drive, the FWC has found, refusing to accept his blame-shifting for failing to reduce the temperature to the required setting.
A senior FWC member has put Apple adherents on notice not to use its proprietary word processor Pages to file documents, observing that the tribunal has enough on its plate without wasting time "chasing down applicants" over inaccessible formats.
The FWC is seeking feedback on a provisional view that it should correct a "clearly nonsensical" proposition in the Hydrocarbons Award that overpayments can only be deducted from workers' wages if they are stood down due to a storm or cyclone.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a public sector worker who claimed without medical proof that his ADHD explained his constant failure to turn up to work or complete tasks.
The FWC has ordered FedEx to reinstate a driver who sustained burns on his leg when he dropped a box containing sulphuric acid, after viewing footage showing "regular" safety breaches at its Wollongong depot.
The FWC has "adjusted the types of cases" allocated to Commissioner Sophie Panopoulos "having regard to her personal circumstances" after her legal representative appeared for her in a Victorian court yesterday.
The FWC will tomorrow hear BHP's bid to break a bargaining deadlock at its crucial Port Hedland operations, ahead of unions staging an eight-hour strike on Thursday the miner claims could cost it more than $100 million. Update: This article has been updated to reflect the FWC bringing forward the conference to tomorrow.
