The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
A full Federal Court has found Metro Trains Melbourne discharged its reverse onus in an adverse action case despite its failure to call a workplace relations head and practising lawyer it approached for "IR advice" in the lead-up to a senior manager's sacking.
The FWC has awarded almost $25,000 to a former nightclub bookkeeper after finding that the company did not sufficiently remove her ex-husband and majority owner from the decision to sack her for mistakenly posting a t-pless photo in a workplace WhatsApp group.
A 20-seconds late FWC lodgement has been fatal for a worker who claimed her employer discriminated against her when it dismissed her for refusing to undergo an independent medical examination after she disclosed her neurodiversity.
The FWC has backed Amazon's sacking of an injured worker who refused to have an independent medical examination, while another employer's income protection policy has weighed in favour of finding it not unfair to dismiss an incapacitated diesel fitter.
The FWC has found an employer that accused a carpenter of submitting a "fake doctor's certificate" complied with the small business fair dismissal code when it summarily sacked him.
An employer remained in the dark about the extent of a worker's acute mental health crisis after she attempted to take her own life, and reasonably concluded that she had abandoned her employment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An employer's request for a medical certificate demonstrating a senior manager's fitness for work after an extended absence would have been unlawful and unreasonable if his contract had not required him to participate in medical examinations.
A court has ordered Airservices Australia to reinstate a would-be firefighter who claims it discriminated him against him because of his type 1 diabetes.
The FWC has finally brought the curtain down on a legal secretary's "spiteful" six-year campaign against her sacking, finding her "incredibly patient" employer had a valid reason to dismiss her after she blocked it from assessing her reasons for a lengthy absence.
