In a shot in the arm for a paramedic transferred 350km away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague, a full bench has ruled that bullying falls within a "spectrum of seriousness" and ordered the redetermination of whether he engaged in serious misconduct.
The FWC has found a cash-in-hand nanny an employee eligible to pursue an adverse action claim, finding that she did not have her own business and the parents of the children she cared for exerted a high degree of control over her work.
The FWC has made SJSP orders putting WorkPac and Skilled on-hire production operators at a Glencore coal mine in line for substantial pay rises despite accepting it might make labour supply contracts "wholly unviable" and result in job losses.
A full Federal Court majority has found that Orica is not obliged to make contributions to the black coal mining sector's portable long service leave scheme for its shotfirers, while Justice Adam Hatcher has demurred.
The FWC has pointed to a worker's knowledge of the 21-day deadline for filing general protections claims in declining to allow his late application to proceed, despite finding that responsibility for the delay rested "overwhelmingly" with his lawyers.
The FWC has "reluctantly" found that in focusing only on the positives an employer failed to adequately explain a newly consolidated deal opposed by one branch of the HSU but supported by its embattled Victorian No 1 branch.
A major charity engineered the departure of a "serial complainer" after the "intuitively odd" involvement of a specialist IR law firm, a court has found.
A tribunal has found for a second time in less than four weeks that a local government body unlawfully deducted relocation costs from an employee's pay packet.
In the first full consideration of new powers to order digital platforms to reverse the deactivation of their workers, the FWC has thrown out a former Uber driver's application after clarifying that the minimum six-month qualification period needs to be both recent and largely continuous.
The FWC has granted the RTBU an intractable bargaining declaration that will require the tribunal to weigh into whether Qube wrongly interpreted a 2019 deal as providing all-in loaded rates, at the same time as the union is seeking to have a related multi-million dollar Federal Court underpayments claim continue as a worker-led class action.
