In a first for the Fair Work Act's new road transport contractor regime, the FWC has ordered a courier company to enter into a new services contract with a parcel delivery driver after finding it "unwittingly" and unfairly terminated her previous one.
No evidence of "witch hunt"; Missing dismissal letter explained late application; 336 days an insurmountable barrier; No joy for sacked DUI worker on sub mission; and Poor mental health did not cover whole delay.
In what the ETU is calling a landmark judgment about trainees' rights, a full Federal Court majority has upheld penalties levied against two companies who stopped organisers entering their premises to speak to apprentices on the basis they were not at "work".
An employer had the right to sack one of the governing directors of its parent company after he chose to "go legal" instead of undergoing an independent medical examination to back up his doctor's claims that he could fulfil his sales role after a period of ill-health, the FWC has found.
Coles had a valid reason to sack a long-serving casual worker for restraining a teenage girl suspected of repeated shoplifting, but must pay $6500 compensation after a FWC finding that he did not knowingly breach the retailer's codes and policies in the "one-off" incident.
Growth in AI-aided complaints is clogging-up the Human Rights Commission and increasing delays, even though many of the claims are found to not warrant further investigation.
The FWC has recommended a university put a proposed academic workload model to a ballot despite finding it had not been developed in line with its enterprise agreement, while also declining to require the employer to apply it from 2024 as intended.
The FWC has backed an employer's refusal to grant an employee with caring responsibilities' request to work flexibly outside its peak operating hours, finding the proposed "bespoke arrangement" unreasonable.
The FWC has allowed a six-days-late general protections claim to proceed after accepting the delay partly resulted from domestic violence and the applicant's daughter attempting to take her own life, in a decision anonymised because of the "sensitive and confidential" nature of its details.
It would be "reckless" for the Federal Government to establish a procurement framework that favours companies with union agreements before Victoria's royal commission into the construction sector is completed, according to the Business Council.
