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A former Accenture ER manager will have a chance to replead an adverse action case in which she alleges she spent years pressing the global professional services firm to address potential exposure to multi-million dollar claims for unpaid overtime before it sacked her for supposedly "preventing" further analysis of the issue.
A senior FWC member should not have discounted a doctor's evidence that a worker possessed the "sound mind" required to understand the consequences of his resignation, a full bench has found.
A FWC presidential member has made it clear that he has no patience for applicants who go "incommunicado" once a case begins, asserting that the Commission has the right to "control its own process" to avoid "pointless time wasting".
The FWC has ruled that Uber did not unfairly deactivate a driver who provided fraudulent licences when registering multiple accounts, despite the platform's failure to provide adequate details of his alleged conduct.
The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked worker after a HR manager failed to explain why she took stress leave following his "unannounced" visit to her office to respond to a warning letter.
The FWC has stopped short of reinstating a wharfie potentially not "in the right mind" when he resigned in 2024, after the tribunal became aware of his recent incarceration for stalking radio star Jackie 'O' Henderson.
In what the NTEU has called a "new low" in tertiary education sector underpayment cases, Torrens University is seeking permission from the High Court to challenge last month's full court finding that casual academics should be paid for marking assessments not directly related to particular lectures or tutorials.
A FWC expert panel has this afternoon made an emergency contractual chain order that will require companies at the top of the supply chain to review petrol prices fortnightly and pay enough to cover owner-driver and transport businesses' increased fuel costs.
A senior FWC member has used an experienced Jetstar aircraft maintenance engineer's unsuccessful challenge to his sacking to emphasise that "hazing" is no longer considered "funny", after he left two apprentices stranded six metres in the air under a Boeing 787 wing while he went to lunch.
In new guidance on the use of generative AI, the Federal Court sets out obligations for practitioners, and warns that breaches can lead to adverse costs orders.
