The FWC has found that an employee of an Australian company who lives and works in New Zealand can bring an unfair dismissal claim, because the employer received his emailed contract acceptance in Victoria.
A HR/IR manager who resigned briefly before taking up a casual position with the same employer has fallen short of the minimum period for pursuing an unfair dismissal case, despite assurances her continuity of employment would be preserved.
An employee pressing to solely work from home did not abandon or repudiate her employment by moving interstate against the employer's express wishes, the FWC has found.
An alleged whistleblower's explosive allegations against franchising business Jim's Group may be headed for hearing, after a court gave him an extension of time and let him file an amended claim.
A New Zealand resident employed by an Australian-registered business has failed to win extra time to file an unfair dismissal claim held up by his "dual jurisdiction misapprehension".
An ICT company will have to compensate a worker it immediately dismissed because she copied clients into an email announcing that she intended to resign.
Workers should not think that independent contractors operate in some "unbridled utopia, free from all direction and control", a senior FWC member has observed in tossing out a psychologist's general protections case.
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.
A senior FWC member has used a transcription service worker's unfair deactivation application to examine and narrow the legislative definition of "digital labour platform", finding an online business does not fall into the category because jobs are allocated by humans rather than algorithms.
