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.
The FWC has declined to extend time by 13 seconds for a prison guard sacked for failing to disclose his involvement in a s-xual harassment case that resulted in a young worker receiving $125,000 compensation.
Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
A FWC full bench has thrown out a nurse's challenge to his sacking, endorsing earlier findings that he improperly used personal leave to campaign in a union election.
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.
The FWC has ordered compensation for a daycare educator sacked after a child "sneakily" escaped into an outdoor play area and went unsupervised for 10 minutes.
The FWC has found that an engineer's "extremely insulting" WhatsApp messages about his manager, sent to colleagues on a day off, warranted his summary sacking, while nevertheless awarding him $14,000 compensation because the employer denied him a chance to explain.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic sacked for s-xual harassment, noting that while his "creepy" conduct breached the university's Appropriate Workplace Behaviour policy, he had apologised to the employee and had no further contact with her after HR intervened three years before his dismissal.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an unfairly sacked WesTrac specialist who altered a leave claim to secure payment for public holidays during the Stokes family-controlled company's end-of-year shutdown period.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a porter after an alleged workplace s-xual assault, despite slamming "unreliable and inconsistent" evidence from its HR manager.
