The FWC has reinstated a portable toilet delivery driver sacked for a safety breach, after rejecting his employer's claims that he shouldn't be returned to the job because it no longer had trust and confidence in him.
The "critical facts" John Holland Group relied on to sack an OHS advisor for "misrepresenting" a safety incident have failed to stand up in the Fair Work Commission.
The FWC has rejected a "things are different on a mining site" defence from a Fortescue Metals Group worker dismissed for holding a piece of broken glass to the throat of a colleague.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that it is unreasonable for an employer to direct workers to attend a compulsory health assessment designed to address high injury levels without first establishing genuine need.
The Federal Court has ordered the MUA to produce documents, including records of any government lobbying, in the long-running dispute over whether its anti-foreign crewing campaign and not safety was behind industrial action at Chevron's Gorgon project in 2012.
The High Court will decide whether a worker who received entitlements from an abattoir as a result of Fair Work Ombudsman proceedings was barred from making separate injury claims.
A company that dismissed a rigger for working unsafely at height and then allegedly ignoring a supervisor’s instruction to work differently has been ordered to pay him $9000 compensation, after failing to prove he received sufficiently clear directions.
The Federal Circuit Court has rejected a worker's claim that she was dismissed because she refused to work overtime with a co-worker rather than because she had assaulted her several months before.
In its first full bench examination of the Fair Work Act's reinstatement provisions, the FWC has ruled it has no power to attach conditions to orders returning dismissed workers to their jobs.
