The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked worker after a HR manager failed to explain why she took stress leave following his "unannounced" visit to her office to respond to a warning letter.
The FWC has stopped short of reinstating a wharfie potentially not "in the right mind" when he resigned in 2024, after the tribunal became aware of his recent incarceration for stalking radio star Jackie 'O' Henderson.
The FWC has ruled that an employer needed to demonstrate that a long-serving worker intentionally stole sweets she consumed at work to justify her summary dismissal, and ordered $24,000 in compensation.
The FWC has ordered a Catholic school to reinstate the partner of a convicted murderer who became involved in publicity about her case, finding the employer failed to give him clear written directions and properly inform him of the cumulative reasons for his dismissal.
A driver sacked in part for placing p-rnography in a staff area and complaining about the number of work-related WhatsApp groups has won more than $6000 compensation, after the FWC criticised the employer's "relaxed" attitude to the dismissal process.
The former executive manager of an "effectively insolvent" disability services provider sacked while on workers compensation has been awarded $20,000, after the FWC found an administrator reached an "uninformed view" her job could be performed by subordinates.
An employer that refused to engage in the FWC's consideration of an unfair dismissal case has been ordered to pay $40,000 to a supervisor sacked for letting employees use a shackled emergency exit with an A4 printed "no entry, no exit" sign affixed to it.
An early childhood education trainee has won more than $10,000 compensation after the FWC found her employer had no reason to sack her by text based on "vague" examples of misconduct and failure to complete a qualification for which she had not yet been assessed.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic dismissed for sending "intimate and romantic" messages to a PhD student he supervised.
In what stands as an object lesson in how not to handle performance reviews, the FWC has highlighted the role of "managerial cowardice" and a passive HR department while reinstating a senior academic who received an "exceeds expectations" score shortly before three colleagues formally complained about her conduct.
