An employer had the right to sack one of the governing directors of its parent company after he chose to "go legal" instead of undergoing an independent medical examination to back up his doctor's claims that he could fulfil his sales role after a period of ill-health, the FWC has found.
Coles had a valid reason to sack a long-serving casual worker for restraining a teenage girl suspected of repeated shoplifting, but must pay $6500 compensation after a FWC finding that he did not knowingly breach the retailer's codes and policies in the "one-off" incident.
The FWC has recommended a university put a proposed academic workload model to a ballot despite finding it had not been developed in line with its enterprise agreement, while also declining to require the employer to apply it from 2024 as intended.
The FWC has backed an employer's refusal to grant an employee with caring responsibilities' request to work flexibly outside its peak operating hours, finding the proposed "bespoke arrangement" unreasonable.
The FWC has allowed a six-days-late general protections claim to proceed after accepting the delay partly resulted from domestic violence and the applicant's daughter attempting to take her own life, in a decision anonymised because of the "sensitive and confidential" nature of its details.
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 manager has failed to convince the FWC that she had no choice but to resign, after she chose not to engage in mediation with the chief executive or pursue a formal complaint process.
The Federal Court has refused to treat court documents sent to an employer's former lawyers as effective service after the employer moved to the United Kingdom, but has allowed the worker involved to send the documents via WhatsApp.
Queensland's IRC has directed a government agency to freshly review an intelligence analyst's employment status after it gave insufficient reasons for rejecting his request for permanent appointment to a higher-level position he acted in.
A FWC full bench has quashed a certificate sending a general protections case involving dismissal to court after a member failed to determine an employer's objection that a worker quit, before recent Fair Work Act amendments removed the requirement.
