The FWC has declined to delay a vote on an SDA-endorsed deal at a Coles automated distribution centre, despite finding the supermarket giant breached good faith bargaining obligations by not providing the draft agreement to another union.
The FWC has taken into account the financial pain of missed mortgage repayments and the disruption of being forced to take a drive-in, drive-out role in deciding to reinstate a mineworker who raised a fist towards a colleague after being "triggered" when called a "c—t".
The FWC has found Sydney Trains does not have to fund devices used to treat employees' sleep apnoea, but has suggested a review of arrangements with the employer's external health assessors after workers diagnosed with the condition had to pay up to $4000 for the anti-snoring technology.
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.
The Federal Court has declined to temporarily restrain Atlassian from managing a neurodivergent worker's performance or sacking him, after finding no "real threat" of imminent termination of his employment.
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 ruled that while a BHP subsidiary "imposed unreasonable deadlines" for a worker with bipolar to respond to and provide medical reports, it was entitled to dismiss him for incapacity after he refused to attend a "tie-breaker" medical exam to resolve conflicting assessments of his fitness for work.
A retail worker will have a chance to argue that she got the sack for "speaking up against religious supremacy and genderism" after a FWC member accepted that a faulty internet connection delayed her application by two minutes.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has rejected a worker's unfair dismissal appeal, finding that "only artificial intelligence" could seriously suggest that he kicked down a locked door for any reason other than anger.
The FWC has held that a bus driver cannot use a request for flexible working arrangements to transfer to a separate but related employer in another state.
