A worker has lost his ability to lodge a general protections application challenging his sacking after waiting more than three weeks to hear back from the FWC's Workplace Advice Services program, with the tribunal refusing to grant an extension.
The FWC has slashed the redundancy payout owing to a university facilities manager who turned down an alternative role encouraging weekend work to take up a higher paying position with fresh opportunities.
The FWC has pointed to a Victoria Police branch's brush with the "red line threshold" for public sector service delivery as reinforcing the business case for rejecting a prosecutor's request to work from home on Mondays.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an inexperienced FIFO mineworker sacked over her involvement in a dig site mix-up that cost her employer about $200,000 after the dumping of 54 ounces of gold.
A Metcash coordinator working from home since she started her job during the coronavirus pandemic has won rare flexibility orders requiring the distribution giant to exempt her from a directive to return to the office, so she can minimise risks for her child with cystic fibrosis.
CFMEU construction division WA branch secretary Mick Buchan has won his first entry permit in a decade, following a FWC finding he meets the "fit and proper person" test five years after landing a fine for organising an illegal strike.
Uber's "farcical", "inane" and "mind-numbing" response to a driver's attempt to challenge it booting him off the platform for alleged misconduct did not satisfactorily explain why he filed his unfair deactivation application 12 days' late, the FWC has found.
An expert FWC panel headed by President Adam Hatcher has decried the Albanese Government's "proposed usurpation" of the Commission's role while rejecting an ASU request to delay consideration of gender-undervaluation changes in a major award.
A long-serving FWC member has lamented the tribunal's "disappointing" refusal to cover the cost of her attending the "premier industrial relations event", the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association's national conference in Brisbane later this year.
A teacher accused of assaulting three students has secured a delay in his FWC unfair dismissal proceedings, after a local court adjourned his criminal hearing
