The FWC has awarded $15,000 compensation to a couple sacked within hours of each other for allegedly bullying the same manager by invoking a "summoning ritual" involving a pentagram and rubber ducks, and "mocking" her in a workplace chat group.
The Federal Government ended the term of former DEWR secretary Natalie James, making her eligible for a payout of 12 months of her $932,000-plus annual salary, less super contributions, a PM&C official told a Senate Estimates hearing in Canberra today.
The FWC has accepted that an eight-months-old petition from Ampol workers and the account of a union delegate as proof a majority wants to bargain, rejecting the employer's objections that the document had passed its use-by date.
The FWC has ordered Uber Eats to reactivate a driver who offered a customer money to kiss him, finding it failed to "squarely" provide him the details of the allegations.
A NDIS-registered medical provider's "frivolous" spending on "staff wellbeing" birthday celebrations and "recklessness" in hiring new staff while struggling to meet a speech pathologist's redundancy entitlements has helped undo its bid to slash her payout.
Major players in the construction industry are rallying to stymie an urgent TWU application to use transport supply chain laws to pressure them as customers of concrete suppliers, ahead of talks in the FWC this morning.
A senior FWC member has tripled the compensation sought by a worker sacked after her mother called the employer to convey in "abrupt and firm" tones that it should stop insisting on documentary evidence of a close relative's sudden death before paying bereavement leave.
A power industry worker who invited a colleague to continue their verbal jousting "outside" and told his supervisor to "get f--ked too" has won his job back after the FWC found his actions out of character in circumstances where he faced significant family health issues and "banter" was part of the workplace culture.
A FWC full bench has canvassed the meanings of "sufficient interest" and "sufficiently representative" in upholding a challenge to the approval of a labour hire company's agreement, voted on entirely by casuals despite extending to permanents.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an experienced electrician burned by a fireball, factoring in his failure to wear a face shield and rejecting his claim that "delirium" made him fudge a risk assessment.
