The FWC has found an agreement does not entitle workers to redundancy pay if they are unable to obtain or refuse to obtain a newly-required high level security clearance.
Tugboat operator Svitzer Australia must pay $15,000 damages to a former port manager sacked because its national HR manager perceived him as "not grateful enough" about efforts to ensure his continuing employment during a restructure.
A job that required four hours a day of travel did not amount to acceptable alternative employment for a redundant worker who had toiled almost entirely from home, the FWC has ruled.
In a significant decision about employers' redundancy obligations, the FWC has rejected MUA arguments that a marine service company could have "cobbled together" a new role out of various casual jobs to create a full-time position for a deckhand laid off after it lost a contract.
The FWC has made it clear that it is not its role to protect the personal assets of directors, in dismissing a mining services contractor's request to escape paying $190,000 in redundancies.
An executive on a major Victorian Government infrastructure project who accepted a large severance package could not "seriously" contend he departed reluctantly when he elected to pocket a $50,000 payment instead of taking part in a further redeployment process, the FWC has found.
A cancer-stricken helicopter pilot who hadn't worked in more than three years still had six months of long service leave owing when sacked for supposedly "frustrating" his contract, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has affirmed that small businesses have the same obligations as large employers when consulting over redundancies, throwing out a tile importer's appeal against orders to pay more than $30,000 to a former sales representative.
An airline has succeeded in having a former manager's redundancy pay cut to zero after the FWC found his insistence on amending an intellectual property clause in his contract did not alter the fact that it offered him "objectively acceptable" alternative employment.
The FWC is seeking feedback on its provisional view that it should order Secure Parking to reinstate a full-time compliance manager to a part-time position, finding Japanese-owned company unfairly dismissed him during a cost-cutting redundancy round.
