The FWC has rejected a highly-paid commercial leasing director's unfair dismissal claim, finding that while many of his duties aligned with a real estate award classification, his duties and responsibilities pushed him outside its scope.
A FWC full bench has refused to overturn the dismissal of a veteran AFL umpire who frog-marched a trespassing jogger from a training session, in a significant decision "reconciling" the tribunal's different approaches to whether employers have valid reasons to sack workers variously involved in physical altercations and policy breaches.
A FWC full bench has reassured a union that majority support determinations are still a possibility in circumstances where apprentices form a "subgroup" at group training organisations.
In what might be the first FWC costs order for failing to heed warnings against proceeding with AI-assisted cases afflicted by "unfixable" flaws, the FWC has taken the "very rare step" of ordering a worker to pay part of his former employer's costs of defending his "doomed" unfair dismissal claim.
In a significant decision on calculating compensation for unfairly dismissed workers, a FWC full bench has held that the tribunal should not have reduced a worker's payout to factor in income received months after her anticipated earnings period.
The ETU is accusing BHP managers of breaching organisers' entry rights at a meeting of members at Port Hedland today, and will challenge the company's actions in the Federal Court, while the company contends the organisers "loudly interrupted" a crib room and "became aggressive".
The FWC will today hear an ETU challenge to BHP's docking of the pay of sparkies on the power network serving its Pilbara iron ore mines and company town, after they participated in protected bans on mentoring, training and upskilling.
The FWC has ordered an alpine resort operator to pay $14,000 to a former general manager sacked over allegations he covertly overpaid his partner and allowed staff to drive company vehicles while drunk or high on drugs.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a worker sacked while on remand as he faced stalking and domestic violence charges, finding his employer's reliance on the criminal allegations "premature" and "unjust".
