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An employer is facing a potential adverse action claim after the FWC held that its general manager's out-of-hours spamming of an injured delivery driver ended the employment relationship even if the company's director did not want him dismissed.
A FIFO chemist on a Santos-operated vessel who resigned after seeking an "appropriate safe job" while pregnant and challenging instructions to hasten her return from parental leave has established that her employer's cumulative conduct forced her hand.
A court has thrown out claims by a HR consultancy's former chief executive that she experienced relentless bullying, unilateral pay deductions and an excessive workload before her unlawful sacking in 2020 for allegedly misusing a corporate credit card.
A court has refused to grant a self-represented on-hire worker a second extension of time to pursue his "confusing" adverse action case, finding too many gaps in his explanation for a 10-week delay during which he badgered the FWC to arbitrate the matter and travelled overseas.
A full Federal Court has overturned orders for a big company to compensate a former employee for a "sham" redundancy, finding a judge wrongly ruled on the necessity of a business restructure.
A judge has lambasted an embassy's failed attempt to strike out sham contracting claims as a "waste of time" and public resources, accusing it of wanting "to keep their immunity cake and to eat it too".
In a significant decision for Australian companies hiring workers overseas, the FWC has allowed an Argentina-based chief operating officer's adverse action case to proceed after finding the employment contract was formed when an email accepting the job offer was opened in Sydney.
An employer has fended off a new employee's adverse action claim after providing evidence of the numerous steps it took to address se-xual harassment and bullying allegations before her abrupt resignation.
The president of a nursing "red union" faces the sack from her hospital job after failing to persuade an appeal court that unauthorised media comments fell under protected industrial activity.
The Federal Court has today ordered the TWU's leader and Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson to attend mediation before former Chief Justice James Allsop over the compensation of about 1700 former ground crew, following the High Court's finding last week that the airline engaged in unlawful adverse action against them.
