The FWC has backed a mining company's denial of a worker's request for flexible work to enable her to care for her baby, in a decision finding fairness a "neutral consideration" where both parties have acted reasonably.
A senior FWC member should not have discounted a doctor's evidence that a worker possessed the "sound mind" required to understand the consequences of his resignation, a full bench has found.
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".
The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked worker after a HR manager failed to explain why she took stress leave following his "unannounced" visit to her office to respond to a warning letter.
In what the NTEU has called a "new low" in tertiary education sector underpayment cases, Torrens University is seeking permission from the High Court to challenge last month's full court finding that casual academics should be paid for marking assessments not directly related to particular lectures or tutorials.
Qantas long-haul pilots have rejected a proposed deal that would have lifted their pay by about 25% over four years, after their unions split on whether to support the offer.
Before the first Right to Disconnect dispute hearing, scheduled for this morning, Pacific National resolved the matter in a private conference, leaving the Fair Work Act's RtD provisions untested after 20 months in operation.
The FWC has dismissed claims that an employer undermined good faith bargaining obligations by suspending and then proposing to sack a union delegate who grabbed the shirt of a child patron at a sports centre.
