The FWC has slashed the redundancy payout owing to a university facilities manager who turned down an alternative role encouraging weekend work to take up a higher paying position with fresh opportunities.
The FWC has pointed to a Victoria Police branch's brush with the "red line threshold" for public sector service delivery as reinforcing the business case for rejecting a prosecutor's request to work from home on Mondays.
The Australian subsidiary of a multinational construction company followed a "considered industrial strategy" devised by a former AMWU leader when it refused a senior union official entry to a project to speak to workers, a judge has found.
The FWC has rejected a host employer's argument that de-boning chickens is specialist work that would fall under the service provision exception, and has made same-job, same-pay orders covering two labour-hire companies that provide workers to a poultry processing plant.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an inexperienced FIFO mineworker sacked over her involvement in a dig site mix-up that cost her employer about $200,000 after the dumping of 54 ounces of gold.
A poultry processing worker sacked for refusing to vaccinate against COVID-19 has been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a judge found her former employer did not need to defend accusations of religious discrimination and consultation failures.
A Metcash coordinator working from home since she started her job during the coronavirus pandemic has won rare flexibility orders requiring the distribution giant to exempt her from a directive to return to the office, so she can minimise risks for her child with cystic fibrosis.
Uber's "farcical", "inane" and "mind-numbing" response to a driver's attempt to challenge it booting him off the platform for alleged misconduct did not satisfactorily explain why he filed his unfair deactivation application 12 days' late, the FWC has found.
An employer remained in the dark about the extent of a worker's acute mental health crisis after she attempted to take her own life, and reasonably concluded that she had abandoned her employment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
A Federal Circuit and Family Court judge has urged the Albanese Government to "substantially" increase penalties for failing to engage with compliance notices and to empower the FWO to seek the removal of directors, to prevent recidivism and deter directors and companies from ignoring notices.
