A director repeatedly targeted by the FWO who "brazenly" continued operating businesses despite a restraining order and habitually and deliberately underpaid workers has been ordered to stump-up $479,000 in penalties against him and his companies.
The FWC has ordered a university to allow an advisor to work from home one day a week, despite finding it had reasonable business grounds to reject the two-days-a-week WFH flexibility request she made on the basis of her age.
A court has declined to hear discrimination cases brought by three health workers sacked mid-pandemic for refusing COVID-19 jabs, finding no merit in their arguments that being unvaccinated should be treated as a disability.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has sent the ASU back to the drawing board to precisely detail its case for further award-based pay rises for community and disability workers after receiving the union's latest "aspirational" pitch for increases of up to 35%.
The FWC has extended time for a HR manager with a "debilitating" undiagnosed neurological condition to file her general protections claim, despite accepting the medical evidence failed to prove her incapacitation during the 21-day statutory limitation period.
A full bench has upheld orders requiring a BHP labour hire subsidiary to reinstate to a different mine a worker accused of aggressive conduct, finding a FWC member did not impose an "unmeetable burden" on workplace investigations, while the company's challenge to his colleague's reinstatement order is waiting in the wings.
A former ANZ executive found to be "persona non grata" in the industry has been cleared to recover millions in bonuses withheld after his sacking for sending lewd messages, but has otherwise failed in his six-year-long case to win whistleblower protections or sustain arguments that the bank took unlawful adverse action.
A court has rejected a probationary employee's claim that a public sector employer sacked her because she has a disability, took sick and carer's leave and lodged an anti-bullying claim, accepting that the employer simply decided she did not have the skills and aptitude to perform her job.
Deregulate the establishment and administration of registered unions and "let the red unions rip through the industrial relations system" to restore Australia's productivity and wealth, Red Unions Support Hub managing director Jack McGuire told the recent HR Nicholls Society national conference.
The FWC has rejected a maintenance manager's "no harm, no foul" defence to his sacking over a failed kickback scheme, finding he engaged in serious misconduct when he deliberately and dishonestly attempted to defraud his employer.
