Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
The FWC has ordered an employer to withdraw its offer of a "customer service continuity payment" for employees working through protected industrial action.
The Federal Court has run out of patience with a litigious solicitor whose numerous cases include "scandalous" allegations about a law firm and a FWC member, effectively blocking him from pursuing any further claims, to safeguard the legal system's "finite resources".
The FWC has ordered compensation for a daycare educator sacked after a child "sneakily" escaped into an outdoor play area and went unsupervised for 10 minutes.
A FWC full bench has for the first time considered whether non-parties to a dispute can appeal an arbitrated outcome, concluding that a peak employer body concerned about the implications of a classification decision satisfied the legislative definition of a "person aggrieved".
A serial-offending IR advisory business has drawn criticism from the FWC for setting "an unacceptably low bar", this time after it failed to check that it correctly filed a worker's unfair dismissal claim within the 21-day limit.
RBA monetary policy board member and former FWC president Iain Ross has dismissed fears Australia could experience a damaging wage-price spiral despite the recent sharp rises in inflation
A marine superintendent who unsuccessfully challenged a cruise operator's right to stand him down during the Covid-19 pandemic has failed to have the decision belatedly anonymised, after a FWC full bench expressed doubt that it could affect his job prospects.
Federal Court Chief Justice Debra Mortimer has used an event marking the institution's 50th anniversary to acknowledge the "significant" contributions of the late Shane Marshall AM, while the High Court will hold a ceremonial sitting to honour its first female justice, the late Mary Gaudron KC.
The FWC has found that an engineer's "extremely insulting" WhatsApp messages about his manager, sent to colleagues on a day off, warranted his summary sacking, while nevertheless awarding him $14,000 compensation because the employer denied him a chance to explain.
