The Fair Work Commission has found the Department of Veterans' Affairs did not force an assistant director to resign during a fitness‑for‑duty process, concluding he chose to quit rather than risk an adverse assessment.
The ETU has failed to halt a lockout it claimed a company unlawfully initiated in response to safety inspections at a major NSW workshop, with the FWC finding the employer gave ample warning it would close the gates if workers went on strike.
In a significant judgment on tertiary education sector pay, a full Federal Court has today found that under the academic staff award, a casual lecturer should have been paid for time spent marking assessments not directly related to particular lectures or tutorials.
The FWC has reaffirmed that a job's inherent requirements do not need to be spelled out in employment contracts, upholding the dismissal of a Triple Zero employee who lost his security clearance for sharing information from a police database.
The ACTU is backing calls to allow media and arts contractors to access minimum standards orders regardless of whether they use digital platforms, and to broaden labour hire "same-job, same-pay" orders to include conditions, in its submission to the Closing Loopholes review.
A senior FWC member has rebuked an experienced Telstra worker for wasting the tribunal's time on a "spiteful" anti-bullying bid based on "pedantic" complaints about his manager.
A database manager's "wise" choice at the time not to challenge his summary sacking for falsifying timesheets contrasted with his "ill advised" decision to contest it in the FWC, a tribunal member has observed.
A rope access technician has been ordered to pay $125,000 in costs after pursuing a failed underpayments and discrimination case described by the judge as "a textbook example of launching an action without reasonable cause".
The FWC has backed a ferry operator's sacking of a customer service worker who proved unable to meet the requirements of her role due to deep vein thrombosis, finding it could not offer "reasonable adjustments" to accommodate her incapacity.
BHP says it has contingency plans in place to ensure continuity of power supply to its Pilbara mines and ports, as 60 workers who operate its remote electricity grid threaten what it says is its WA iron ore operation's first protected action this century.
