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The FWC has upheld the sacking of a truck salesperson whose loud swearing was overheard by customers while already on a final warning for saying there would be "bloodshed everywhere" if his employer did not resolve his issues.
A 70-year-old childcare worker has been reinstated after a finding that she was forced to resign in the face of her the employer's "callous" direction to relocate to a distant workplace and accept a role change that involved changing nappies.
A transgender senior law lecturer who claims his employer told him it was making him redundant due to COVID-19 is suing for alleged unlawful adverse action, sham redundancy and sex discrimination.
A teacher claiming bullying "on a shocking scale" can proceed with his adverse action case after a full Federal Court found the lower court judge who dismissed the matter over mental health concerns failed to properly consider whether to appoint a litigation guardian.
The Federal Court has rejected a disbarred lawyer's attempt to sideline a senior FWC member and the tribunal itself from hearing his unfair dismissal case, while also declining to grant "extreme" orders preventing a law firm from participating in the court proceedings.
An FWC full bench is inviting submissions by 2pm on an award variation allowing the real estate industry to disregard the COVID-19 months for commission-only employees and place a moratorium on commencing such arrangements.
Rejecting an employer's extraordinary claim that a farm manager resigned "out of spite" so she could use her FWC challenge to blackmail it into giving her a horse, the tribunal has held it unfairly dismissed her by forcing her out.
The FWC has ordered Ultra Tune to compensate a sacked senior manager considered to be the face of a "dodgy" new sales program and a "training manager who did not want to train".
The Federal Court has quashed a military tribunal's imprisonment of a cadet who admitted to posting an intimate video on Snapchat, after the army conceded it had misapplied sentencing principles.
