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A ruling by FWC President Adam Hatcher has revealed that a former Oracle data technician enraged about the tribunal's handling of multiple applications to overturn his dismissal threatened to burn down the Commission with the member who conciliated his application inside.
A labour law academic says there is a need to ask how Australia's IR system is so "fundamentally broken" that it incentivises the conduct evident in Qantas's decision to unlawfully outsource jobs to avoid bargaining, in circumstances where the record $90 million fine imposed yesterday will barely dent its resultant annual savings.
A former Matildas star and Olympian was not forced to resign from her job at a remote gas facility because of alleged "microaggressions" that included being assigned "non-complex work" and persistent references to "fellas" and "gents", the FWC has found.
The Federal Court has today ordered Qantas to pay a $90 million fine - including $50 million to the TWU - for the Flying Kangaroo's unlawful outsourcing of the jobs of about 1800 ground handling employees, while it has criticised chief executive Vanessa Hudson for failing to appear to explain the airline's contrition.
A worker has failed to convince the FWC that Victoria's corruption watchdog dismissed her because of her "combative communication style" and her "unnecessary assessment of colleagues' work", which she argued amounted to manifestations of her Autism, rather than because of her misconduct.
A judge has slapped an $8000 penalty on a major Commonwealth department after expressing astonishment that it does not have a "human or technological" system in place to ensure it pays dismissed employees their correct entitlements.
The FWC has banned a paid agent from continuing to represent his client after finding him to blame for the worker's late dismissal challenge and that he sought to rely on a decision which "clearly does not exist" when arguing the application had been filed within time.
A worker has lost his ability to lodge a general protections application challenging his sacking after waiting more than three weeks to hear back from the FWC's Workplace Advice Services program, with the tribunal refusing to grant an extension.
A poultry processing worker sacked for refusing to vaccinate against COVID-19 has been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a judge found her former employer did not need to defend accusations of religious discrimination and consultation failures.
The Federal Court has today refused to seek to punish for contempt Nine Media companies, editors, in-house lawyers and journalists, after their newspapers failed to take down articles naming some of those involved in a campaign against the ABC's employment of radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf.
