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The FWC has backed an employer's refusal to grant an employee with caring responsibilities' request to work flexibly outside its peak operating hours, finding the proposed "bespoke arrangement" unreasonable.
The FWC has allowed a six-days-late general protections claim to proceed after accepting the delay partly resulted from domestic violence and the applicant's daughter attempting to take her own life, in a decision anonymised because of the "sensitive and confidential" nature of its details.
Tugboat operator Svitzer Australia must pay $15,000 damages to a former port manager sacked because its national HR manager perceived him as "not grateful enough" about efforts to ensure his continuing employment during a restructure.
The FWC has declined to delay a vote on an SDA-endorsed deal at a Coles automated distribution centre, despite finding the supermarket giant breached good faith bargaining obligations by not providing the draft agreement to another union.
The FWC has taken into account the financial pain of missed mortgage repayments and the disruption of being forced to take a drive-in, drive-out role in deciding to reinstate a mineworker who raised a fist towards a colleague after being "triggered" when called a "c—t".
The FWC has found Sydney Trains does not have to fund devices used to treat employees' sleep apnoea, but has suggested a review of arrangements with the employer's external health assessors after workers diagnosed with the condition had to pay up to $4000 for the anti-snoring technology.
In a significant decision about employers' redundancy obligations, the FWC has rejected MUA arguments that a marine service company could have "cobbled together" a new role out of various casual jobs to create a full-time position for a deckhand laid off after it lost a contract.
A retail worker will have a chance to argue that she got the sack for "speaking up against religious supremacy and genderism" after a FWC member accepted that a faulty internet connection delayed her application by two minutes.
The FWC has rejected a veteran bank loan manager's bid to expunge his name from all records of his failed dismissal challenge, despite accepting that it will make it difficult for him to find another job in the industry.
An unpaid layperson said to be representing 12 workers in the FWC has failed to convince a senior member she has an "automatic right" to represent a pilot in a late general protections case, with the tribunal also citing evidence she unsuccessfully sought a restraining order against the employer's lawyer and allegedly threatened his family.
