The FWC has granted separate extensions of time to two workers challenging their dismissals, after attaching significant weight to the deaths of close family members.
The FWC has extended time by seven hours for a care worker to lodge her unfair dismissal claim after a loose power cord stymied a paid agent's "imprudent and careless" late night filing efforts.
Wharfies at Qube's bulk and general ports plan to step up protected industrial action with bans and limitations this week in Melbourne, Port Kembla and Brisbane, while warning that strikes are imminent.
A shareholding employee sacked by his "toxic" family business for raising his voice at a salesperson has won compensation but missed out on reinstatement due in part to his court bid to wind up the company.
FWC President Adam Hatcher is seeking feedback before diving in to three TWU test cases seeking minimum standards orders for food and parcel delivery gig workers and owner drivers.
The FWC has noted the proliferation of a business model serving as a "risk shifting exercise" for host employers, in rejecting a labour hire worker's unfair dismissal claim.
Mining giant Peabody has won special leave from the High Court to challenge a full Federal Court finding that it did not genuinely make workers redundant when it failed to consider whether it could redeploy workers to jobs performed by contractors.
A security company has been ordered to pay more than $40,000 compensation to a former manager after the FWC found its owner/chief executive pressured him to sign a new contract with higher sales targets and broader constraint clauses and then told him to "finish up" when he refused.
The MEU has opened up another front in its continuing battles with BHP, claiming in a new Federal Court case that the mining giant is breaching award provisions by failing to give its Operations Services in-house labour hire workforce Christmas and Boxing Day off and not seeking majority support for regular shifts in excess of 10 hours.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a convicted child s-x offender sacked after his employer discovered his use of a pseudonym to conceal his past, rejecting a psychologist's "contradictory" evidence about his capacity to complete the necessary forms.
