A mother and daughter were unfairly dismissed by an abortion clinic because the employer failed to adequately investigate allegations of fraud and bullying levelled at the pair, the FWC has found.
Employers needn't comply with rigid performance management processes when dismissing poorly-performing employees, as long as they can point to conscious and concerted efforts to address the worker's perceived shortcomings, the FWC has found.
The FWC has thrown out an employer's argument that a "wide view" of the Fair Work Act allowed it to make four safety officers working on the Gorgon LNG project redundant when they refused to accept a 13% pay cut.
Former asbestos producer James Hardie has been ordered to pay exemplary damages for the first time in Australia, a South Australian District Court ruling the company was driven by a "thirst for profit" when it continued to sell asbestos products despite knowing they could kill.
A university and its HR department embroiled in accusations of bullying between law school academics have been granted the right to engage lawyers to defend the claims.
NSW's Berejiklian Government has been forced to discontinue its Supreme Court action against the RTBU for last week's 24-hour wildcat bus strike because it pursued the wrong branch of the union.
The FWC has confirmed that 117 employees made redundant by a South Australian car manufacturing company will receive payments in lieu of notice as part of a redundancy package agreed to in their enterprise agreement.
The Federal Circuit Court has ordered a company to pay more than $7,000 in unpaid wages and super to a student visa holder after hearing evidence of a deliberate scheme to exploit young international students working in Australia.
The FWC has called on employers to introduce a greater range of disciplinary options like fines and unpaid suspensions into agreements to avoid "inappropriately lenient or inappropriately harsh" responses to misconduct that are problematic for all parties concerned.
Contested-facts dismissal case should have gone to hearing: Bench; Member's "significant error" in considering legal representation; FWC rejects employer's costs bid in Coty "ugly emails" case.
