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The Federal Circuit and Family Court has rejected a casual TAFE teacher's bid via its small claims jurisdiction to pursue her employer for failing to convert her to permanency, as it slashed her hours in the six months before the first anniversary of her start-date.
The FWC has welcomed a new member "honoured" to have worked at a law firm founded in the 1940s by a Communist she considers herself lucky enough to have interviewed in his final years.
A senior FWC member has rounded on a national business's HR team for the "crude" and disrespectful process it followed to make one of its own members redundant, suggesting it engage in some "sober reflection".
In a court ruling a major media organisation argues could curtail open justice "in every proceeding", a judge has blocked the release of documents until attempts to reach a mediated settlement in the adverse action case have been exhausted.
The FWC has urged David Jones to improve its retrenchment processes, while opening the way for a long-serving worker to pursue an unfair dismissal case after the department store deemed her unsuitable for redeployment to an area serving "elevated" clientele.
A judge has rejected suggestions that he "inferred misconduct" on the part of lawyers acting for a construction giant in an adverse action case that has moved on to weighing damages and compensation.
The ACTU says the "right to disconnect" clause to be inserted into awards should provide "descriptive guidance" on how the entitlement would operate and the FWC should reject employers' proposed "minimalist" approach, ahead of consultations next week and the Commission releasing a draft provision next month.
Extending employers' duty of care to the disciplining and sacking of workers would not "frustrate" contractual certainty or disrupt businesses, lawyers for a charity's former consultant have told the High Court.
The taxpayer-funded FEG scheme has won court orders putting it in the box seat to claw back more than $600,000 in unpaid wages and entitlements handed out to the former employees of a liquidated company.
The FWC has refused to reduce two FIFO workers' redundancy pay, finding that redeployment offers did not amount to "other acceptable employment" because they were given insufficient time to consider roster changes that would also have reduced their time at home.
