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In a decision highlighting the need to confirm an employee's intentions before taking an ambiguous or emotionally charged exchange to be a resignation, the FWC will continue hearing a farm hand's unfair dismissal case after rejecting the employer's argument that he quit of his own volition.
The FWC has refused to halt Inpex employees' industrial action, finding that the $15 to $22 million daily cost of a shutdown would not significantly damage the economy, or risk the safety of the Northern Territory population.
The FWC has ordered BHP's labour hire arm to reinstate a worker sacked for saying a female colleague had a "giga-chin" and a "fat -rse", finding he had no idea what the first term meant and that the second accusation, when reframed as "phat -rse", gave it a different complexion.
The FWC has urged the operator of Melbourne's rail network to review its approach to s-xual harassment claims after a "troubling" finding that representatives from its HR department could not pinpoint who had carriage of a complaint and struggled to identify relevant policies and procedures.
A barrister who moonlights as an umpire can proceed with her general protections claim against Tennis Australia after the FWC determined that TA employed her as a casual when it blocked her access to tournaments for allegedly breaching undertakings to never criticise its management of the sport.
The ASU will today seek a 35% work value pay rise for 300,000 SCHADS award-covered community and disability workers, following a two-year pause after the FWC refused to integrate it within the tribunal's broader gender-based undervaluation case.
A FWC full bench has held that a worker's inclusion of s-xual harassment allegations predating the commencement of new intervention powers did not justify dismissing her dispute application, allowing her to again pursue a certificate to take her claims to the Federal Court.
A FWC full bench has ruled that Corrections Victoria dismissed a prison officer when it demoted and transferred him, clearing the way for him to proceed with his unfair dismissal claim.
The FWC has waved away as "self-inflicted" any financial and reputational harm caused to HR/IT and operations managers hastily sacked by a NDIS provider, pointing to the married couple's apparent purloining of the company's funds and numerous undeclared conflicts of interest as valid reasons for their dismissal.
