Browsing: Misconduct (706 items)


Bank executive challenges WeChat sacking

A highly-paid Commonwealth Bank executive has told the FWC he did not deserve to lose his job over accusations that he shared customer information over the popular WeChat Chinese messaging platform and misled the bank's investigators.


HR wouldn't have saved unfair sacking: FWC

Two food delivery service founders have won more than $150,000 in compensation after their sacking by a company chair whose "total disregard" for procedural fairness made it unlikely he would be swayed by HR advice.


$12K blowback for sewage worker

A Melbourne Water employee's challenge to his sacking has backfired after a court rejected his contract-breach case and ordered him to repay $12,000 in "reverse-engineered" car mileage claims.


FWC backs AFL sending-off elite umpires coach

The FWC has upheld the dismissal of long-serving AFL umpire and coach Frank Kalayzich, who claimed to be the victim of HR bias and a CCTV footage "ambush" after he manhandled a jogger at North Sydney Oval and frog-marched him to the exit gate.


Manager "blameless" for late application

A FWC member has taken into account an experienced lawyer's stray comma, an apparent formatting problem and the FWC's tardy notification of an issue in absolving a worker of any blame for her 35-day-late unfair dismissal application.


Woolies right to sack harassing manager: FWC

The FWC has backed Woolworths' summary sacking of a 63-year-old manager found to have s-xually harassed a 29-year-old colleague when he sent her a red lipstick kiss emoji and texted "I love you".


Swearing, bikini-pic-sharing wharfie subbed back in

The FWC has reinstated a "careless" Qube stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich and calling another a c-nt, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to male co-workers.


"Reckless" car chase justifies sacking: FWC

A Victorian corruption watchdog operative's "reckless and unsafe" close pursuit of a Mercedes fleeing a minor accident warranted his dismissal, the FWC has ruled.


Made-up texts justified HR manager's sacking: FWC

The FWC has found that a senior HR manager's fabrication of a text message from a colleague - which discredited allegations she made against him - amounted to "a complete fiction that even the famed spy story novelist John Le Carré would have been impressed by" and warranted his summary dismissal despite procedural deficiencies.


$64,000 payout for worker who refused breath test

The FWC has found an employer unreasonably directed a worker to take a breath test without clearly explaining why, and then unfairly summarily dismissed her for refusing it.


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