The FWC has thrown out a worker's flexible work bid after she attempted to "call in" older medical documents and conceded she had not been diagnosed with the disability identified in her request.
A law firm has launched the first major underpayment class action against a private Australian university, it claims, over the alleged short-changing of casual academics.
The FWC has found that an engineer's "extremely insulting" WhatsApp messages about his manager, sent to colleagues on a day off, warranted his summary sacking, while nevertheless awarding him $14,000 compensation because the employer denied him a chance to explain.
The FWC has held that a TAFE teacher of three years did not meet the definition of a casual employee and should be treated as a part-time worker, in the second successful casual conversion dispute ruling.
A tribunal is poised to order a council to pay more than $900,000 to a worker it discriminated against by sacking him over his inability to drive an allocated vehicle, in a decision panning a "chilling" suggestion that show cause letters formed part of consultations to identify reasonable adjustments.
A Federal Court judge has declined to recuse herself from hearing the parallel cases of a former aircraft engineer on the basis that she is a member of Qantas's Chairman's Lounge.
Uber's business model has withstood scrutiny in the first test under the Fair Work Act's new unfair contracts provisions to probe its use of the same "cab rank principle" that applies to barristers.
A judge has suppressed details of a criminal defence lawyer's adverse action case against the firm that recently represented alleged Bondi gunman Naveed Akram, noting that any efforts at mediation would be "imperilled" by the airing of "sensitive" allegations and medical reports.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic sacked for s-xual harassment, noting that while his "creepy" conduct breached the university's Appropriate Workplace Behaviour policy, he had apologised to the employee and had no further contact with her after HR intervened three years before his dismissal.
A FWC full bench has rebuffed an employer's challenge to a same-job, same-pay ruling, in its first full bench consideration of the interaction between SJSP legislation and transfer of business provisions.
