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Worker sacked over coronavirus jab gets day in court

The FWC has found that a worker sacked by the Ubuntu Church for obtaining a COVID-19 vaccination is an employee, clearing the way for her to pursue an unfair dismissal claim.


FWC backs sacking of driver who failed to disclose stroke

A tram driver whose failure to disclose his stroke "strikes at the heart of the employment relationship" has failed to establish that his employer unfairly sacked him, despite one of the employer's doctors breaching confidentiality requirements to set the record straight.


Tribunal spikes questions about Woolies' vax consultations

The FWC has endorsed the consultation process Woolworths used before it rolled-out a group-wide COVID-19 vaccination policy, rejecting a "most unusual" unfair dismissal case in which a worker's social media sprays clashed with his claims that the company left him in the dark.


Court dismisses late harassment claim against cricketers

The Federal Court has refused an extension of almost three years for a former Cricket Tasmania receptionist to pursue allegations that former Australian test cricket captain Tim PaineĀ and other Cricket Tasmania employees s-xually harassed her between 2015 and 2017.



Jenkins defends "cost neutral" harassment cases

S-x Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins has defended a proposed shift to "cost neutrality" in s-xual harassment cases, where there is a default position for the parties to pay their own legal costs.


FWC has no stomach for lawyer's gastro excuse

A lawyer's failure to act with the "level of diligence and expertise required of a competent practitioner" caused a four-day delay in filing his client's unfair dismissal claim rather than the attack of gastroenteritis that ran through his family, the FWC has held.


Woodside's "impertinent" call for evidence: FWC bench

A FWC full bench has lashed energy giant Woodside for its "impertinent" suggestion that a senior tribunal member should have supplied evidence that directions she issued while considering an AWU majority support bid, came from a Commission template.


Kiwis pass industry-wide bargaining laws

New Zealand's Ardern Labour Government is preparing for the introduction of occupational and industry-wide bargaining from December 1 after the passage of the landmark Fair Pay Agreements Bill last week.


Academic's Israeli flag swastika no basis for sacking: Court

In a significant ruling on supposed 'cancel culture', a court has found a leading sandstone university and its former deputy vice chancellor breached an agreement's intellectual freedom clause when the institution sacked a lecturer for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag.


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