A tribunal has upheld the suspension without pay of a nurse accused of s-xually assaulting a co-worker in their shared employer-provided accommodation, despite his claims it would be unfair when the allegations are "utterly untested".
In an indication that the Qantas group didn't abandon its hardline IR approach with the departure of Alan Joyce, its low-cost subsidiary is threatening to put a unilateral deal to its ASU-covered customer service workforce as it votes on industrial action to coincide with school holidays and the AFL and NRL finals series.
The FWC has refused permission for an aviation company and a former manager to be represented by lawyers and an unpaid layperson after they volleyed complaints about each other and offered-up "irrelevant material".
The FWC has taken on board a FIFO Shell worker's failure to attend physiotherapy appointments after breaking his back, in dismissing a dispute over the flexible work job-share bids he and a colleague lodged to ease their way into retirement.
The FWC has declined to get involved in the potential sacking of a law professor accused of kissing a student on an "immersion" trip to Paris, despite finding flaws in the disciplinary process.
The FWC has awarded $4000 compensation to an allegedly unhelpful IT help desk employee, reminding employers that performance-managing workers is about clear expectations and the steps required to meet them rather than "handholding".
The FWC has awarded almost $25,000 to a former nightclub bookkeeper after finding that the company did not sufficiently remove her ex-husband and majority owner from the decision to sack her for mistakenly posting a t-pless photo in a workplace WhatsApp group.
An employment court has found that an employer did not breach a worker's right to disconnect when it pressed her to respond to "unreasonable" out-of-hours communications that included TikTok videos about her social life, in the first ruling on the untested provisions.
A Federal Court judge is using a McDonald's class action to test the ability of AI to transform the way courts collate and analyse vast quantities of information, following a speech in which he urged a "far more ambitious" approach to harnessing the technology.
