Tugboat operator Svitzer Australia must pay $15,000 damages to a former port manager sacked because its national HR manager perceived him as "not grateful enough" about efforts to ensure his continuing employment during a restructure.
A manager has failed to convince the FWC that she had no choice but to resign, after she chose not to engage in mediation with the chief executive or pursue a formal complaint process.
The Federal Court has refused to treat court documents sent to an employer's former lawyers as effective service after the employer moved to the United Kingdom, but has allowed the worker involved to send the documents via WhatsApp.
A FWC full bench has quashed a certificate sending a general protections case involving dismissal to court after a member failed to determine an employer's objection that a worker quit, before recent Fair Work Act amendments removed the requirement.
The High Court's refusal to hear an appeal against the Giggle for Girls v Tickle ruling means employers cannot exclude transgender women when they seek to hire women to address historic under-representation in the workforce, a human rights law expert says.
RTBU Victorian branch secretary Vik Sharma says the State union will come together "for the first time" as a united team after his supporters resoundingly defeated the incumbent tram and bus divisional leadership in a recent ballot.
In a rare case of an employer challenging a union's "no" vote campaign materials, the FWC has ruled that the UWU had been entitled to present a two-tier wage system as a threat to existing workers, but misrepresented agreed leave entitlements.
The FWC has declined to delay a vote on an SDA-endorsed deal at a Coles automated distribution centre, despite finding the supermarket giant breached good faith bargaining obligations by not providing the draft agreement to another union.
The FWC has taken into account the financial pain of missed mortgage repayments and the disruption of being forced to take a drive-in, drive-out role in deciding to reinstate a mineworker who raised a fist towards a colleague after being "triggered" when called a "c—t".
The FWC has found Sydney Trains does not have to fund devices used to treat employees' sleep apnoea, but has suggested a review of arrangements with the employer's external health assessors after workers diagnosed with the condition had to pay up to $4000 for the anti-snoring technology.
