A worker sacked after bagging her employer on Facebook has been compensated for being unfairly dismissed, but Fair Work Australia has cautioned employees that information posted on social networking sites can come back to haunt them.
Fair Work Australia has accepted a number of undertakings including a limit on when the employer can stand down workers in approving a deal covering a major meat industry employer and its employees.
Bench quashes extension of time; FWA hearing on former state awards; UK considering whether to scrap right to request training; UK phasing out "default" retirement age; Court rules on "reasonable disciplinary action" question; and Ride to Work Day approaching fast.
FWA has ordered the reinstatement of an employee sacked on suspicion of hitting a roller door with a forklift and not reporting it, despite his employer, Coles, arguing the incident destroyed the trust between the parties.
A high-profile former managing director and senior public servant has won damages of more than $900,000 after a court rejected his employer's claims that he engaged in gross negligence and serious misconduct that warranted his summary dismissal.
Mission Australia conducted a "fatally flawed" investigation that led to the sacking of a manager after she had been accused of intimidating an employee she supervised, FWA has found, while in another ruling the tribunal upheld a dismissal by Qantas after rejecting arguments that an employee's after-work assault of a colleague wasn't sufficiently connected to his employment.
Fair Work Australia has ruled that an employer unreasonably required a union organiser to meet with workers in a training room near managers' offices and has ordered it to give the union access to its lunch room to hold discussions with employees during meal times.
A court has rejected claims by the former general manager of Swatch Group Australia that he was directed to engage in price-fixing, in breach of both the Trade Practices Act and the implied terms of his employment contract, while the company failed in its counter claim that pornographic material found on his computer after his sacking justified his summary dismissal.
