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An employee pressing to solely work from home did not abandon or repudiate her employment by moving interstate against the employer's express wishes, the FWC has found.
The FWC has rejected the dismissal claim of a "combative" risk manager who accused a Rio Tinto-linked First Nations trust of forcing her to resign by subjecting her to psychological hazards, pressuring staff to work on "invasion day", and flouting her right to disconnect.
An alleged whistleblower's explosive allegations against franchising business Jim's Group may be headed for hearing, after a court gave him an extension of time and let him file an amended claim.
Workers should not think that independent contractors operate in some "unbridled utopia, free from all direction and control", a senior FWC member has observed in tossing out a psychologist's general protections case.
A deputy president has scathingly rebuked a Woolworths worker upset at a colleague suggesting he cover up his "plumber's crack" for bringing an unmeritorious general protections application, lamenting the lack of "effective disincentive for speculative claims" that are fuelling the FWC's "burgeoning caseload".
A former Accenture ER manager will have a chance to replead an adverse action case in which she alleges she spent years pressing the global professional services firm to address potential exposure to multi-million dollar claims for unpaid overtime before it sacked her for supposedly "preventing" further analysis of the issue.
A FWC presidential member has made it clear that he has no patience for applicants who go "incommunicado" once a case begins, asserting that the Commission has the right to "control its own process" to avoid "pointless time wasting".
A FWC presidential member has blasted the "exceptionally and embarrassingly poor" service provided by a law firm held responsible for filing a garbage collector's general protections matter 125 days' late.
A Federal Court judge will this month deal with intersecting adverse action and breach of contract claims from former KIIS FM co-hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson, with the latter also accusing the network of failing to protect her from alleged bullying and psychosocial hazards following her previous complaints.
The Federal Court has slugged a wharfie almost $10,000 for telling a colleague "You'll end up dead dog" if he kept escorting on-hire workers through a lawful picket during a strike at Fremantle port in 2021.
