A consulate must compensate a driver whose contract demanded he retire at 65, with a senior FWC member finding no reason why India's government cannot revise its "discriminatory" compulsory retirement policy for Australian-based employees.
In a significant decision on apportioning blame for safety breaches, the FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a supervisor for confectioner Mars after finding a HR manager conducted a "too narrow" investigation of the aftermath of an incident involving a forklift piercing an 850kg carton of mints.
FWC has rejected a registered nurse's claim that an aged care home general manager bullied her by reducing her hours and allegedly banning her from picking up extra shifts when she complained of "burnout".
In a case sent straight to a full bench by President Adam Hatcher, the FWC has rejected an aged care employer's argument that an expired agreement should be axed because it is "unfair" to nurses who would better off under the award.
In another FWC case blighted by AI, a senior member has lamented the time wasted by tribunal staff and an employer as a result of a self-represented worker's citing of three supposedly pertinent decisions, two of them irrelevant and one that "simply did not exist".
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.
