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The FWC has rejected a wellness and body shaping centre's "absurd" suggestion that an employee abandoned her employment by failing to attend a single shift, when it had directed her not to attend work until it arranged a disciplinary meeting.
FWC president Adam Hatcher has fleshed out procedural reforms for general protections claims involving dismissals, which have surged to 57% above the three-year average in the three months to September, while he has also foreshadowed the next areas he will target.
A "high-stakes" case set to test whether State workplace protections extend to independent contractors under the Fair Work Act has been set down for a three-week trial beginning in May, after Federal Court Chief Justice Debra Mortimer agreed that having enough time to assess witnesses is "critical" in such proceedings.
A disability support worker who lodged a general protections claim against a man with quadriplegia for allegedly forcing him to resign as a carer must pay part of his legal costs after holding out for too long on a settlement.
Faced with "simply unsustainable" growth in its caseload, the FWC is seeking to improve efficiency, starting with general protections cases involving dismissals, up by 27% over five years, partly on the back of paid agents using them as a "substitute" for unfair sacking claims, the tribunal's president said today.
A senior FWC member has rejected a costs claim, observing that with rising numbers of self-represented applicants using the tribunal to pursue grievances, its directions are "not always treated with the same reverence and compliance" as in other forums.
A FWC full bench has quashed a finding that Bondi's iconic Sculpture By the Sea event did not sack an art installer, finding a manager's email calling for a "pause on our working relationship" conveyed an intention to terminate his employment.
A former parliamentary officer who took a "shock and awe" approach and went "nuclear" after a federal MP made him redundant post-election has lost his bid to pursue an adverse action case in tandem with a discrimination claim.
Senior ABC managers failed to consult in-house IR and legal experts and "blithely ignored" risks when the organisation "capitulated" to critics and sacked presenter Antoinette Lattouf over her political views on the Gaza war, which warranted a substantial penalty to deter a recurrence, Federal Court judge Darryl Rangiah found today.
The Federal Court has today ordered the ABC to pay former presenter Antoinette Lattouf a fine of $150,000 for unlawfully sacking her for reasons including her political opinion opposing the Gaza war and breaching its enterprise agreement.
