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Uber's "farcical", "inane" and "mind-numbing" response to a driver's attempt to challenge it booting him off the platform for alleged misconduct did not satisfactorily explain why he filed his unfair deactivation application 12 days' late, the FWC has found.
An expert FWC panel headed by President Adam Hatcher has decried the Albanese Government's "proposed usurpation" of the Commission's role while rejecting an ASU request to delay consideration of gender-undervaluation changes in a major award.
A long-serving FWC member has lamented the tribunal's "disappointing" refusal to cover the cost of her attending the "premier industrial relations event", the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association's national conference in Brisbane later this year.
A teacher accused of assaulting three students has secured a delay in his FWC unfair dismissal proceedings, after a local court adjourned his criminal hearing
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a school lab assistant who "forcefully" slapped the hand of a 15-year-old student who had been flicking pieces of a bull's eye in a science class, finding it hard to imagine when such "violence" would be appropriate "in this day and age".
The FWC has agreed to hear a bank employee's late challenge to his sacking for allegedly fraudulently disputing a credit card transaction, accepting sufficient doubts surrounded his intentions, the connection to work and the fairness of effectively ending his chances of ever landing a job in the industry again.
A mineworker has won reinstatement after her sacking for revealing the email addresses of 850 workers in a fundraising blast, the FWC warning employers in the process about the need to maintain distance between dismissal decision-makers and those "involved directly in the facts" of a matter.
A law firm has won court backing to have a psychiatrist assess whether its client is legally fit to pursue her attempt to overturn the rejection of her race and s-x discrimination case, held up by a judge as demonstrating "the perils of litigating hurt feelings".
The FWC has made it clear that a "mere preference" for working at home without providing sufficient evidence of responsibilities or needs will not pass the first hurdle for a flexible work order.
An attempt to warn companies away from the exploding Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme has fallen flat, after an appeal court found that two directors of an ailing business committed no crime by allegedly hoping liquidators would access taxpayer funds to pay out 58 former employees.
