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A union organiser has failed to convince a court that a HSU branch sacked her because she had failed to join a preferred Labor Party faction or because of presumption that she was a lesbian or bis-xual.
The Federal Court has fined the CFMEU's mining and energy division $45,000 for taking adverse action against a former Pilbara organiser after the AWU complained that he was a "Trot" who was "bagging" the union.
There are "promising" early results from a 12-month pilot program that is seeking to speed-up the appeals process in the FWC and reduce parties' costs, according to the tribunal's president, Justice Iain Ross.
The Federal Court has rejected a raft of adverse action claims — one of them involving exposure to a cat — against an aged care provider by a senior nurse eventually sacked for dispensing medicine without authorisation.
In further legal fallout from the 2012 Grocon dispute, the Federal Court has ruled that the CFMEU and eight of its officials unlawfully coerced the company to agree to its demand to employ union-nominated shop stewards when they blocked access to the Myer Emporium and McNab Avenue sites.
The Federal Circuit Court has rejected a worker's claim that she was dismissed because she refused to work overtime with a co-worker rather than because she had assaulted her several months before.
A Federal Court full bench has reversed the reinstatement of a government solicitor who had been found to have suffered adverse action when dismissed while suffering depression.
The Federal Court has found a childcare centre breached federal adverse action laws by sacking a worker for recruiting union members during an industrial campaign, rejecting its claim it dismissed her for reasons including bullying and harassing a colleague who wouldn't join up.
Stevedoring giant DP World was entitled to summarily dismiss an MUA delegate who called a colleague a "f--king lagger" and instructed another worker to lie in a related investigation, and the sacking did not amount to adverse action, the Federal Court has ruled today.
The Federal Circuit Court has accepted that taking sides in an ideological split and making a bullying and harassment complaint are protected under the Fair Work Act's adverse action regime, but has rejected an academic's claim that they were the reasons for his redundancy.
