McDonald's has told a FWC full bench on the first day of a hearing tackling the SDA's test bid for a multi-employer supported bargaining authorisation covering 18 SA franchisees that it strongly opposes the application and considers it unnecessary.
A charity's HR manager engaged in "a blatant exercise in deception" to orchestrate the sacking of a senior manager wrongly accused of serious misconduct, a court has found.
A tribunal has ordered the reinstatement of a council worker found to have had a "brain snap" when he referred to his manager in a text as a "rude c--t" he felt like punching.
A young worker who is accusing her boss of leaving her no choice but to resign when he physically assaulted her has won extra time to pursue a late unfair dismissal claim, with the FWC accepting that mental health ramifications contributed to the delay.
The FWC has backed a school's refusal to let a coordinator perform her executive role part-time for the first two terms when she returns from parental leave, supporting its offer of a lower-paying teacher position and noting it is not simply "serving customers who are buying widgets".
A bus driver who "blatantly breached" road rules and his employer's policies when he took his hands off the wheel, removed his phone from his pocket and used it while driving "fabricated" his explanation that in fact he had in fact been holding his diary, the FWC has ruled after viewing CCTV footage more than 20 times.
The FWC has thrown out a gym attendant's bid for anti-bullying orders, but not before giving his former employer Spotless some advice on how to better respond to complaints and not "overstep" the mark when restricting the reporting of safety concerns.
The Los Angeles-based HR manager for the Melbourne subsidiary of a Chinese hot pot chain did not apply enough rigour to investigating claims about a "knife-wielding" chef before sacking her for a second time, the FWC has found.
Air-conditioning industry employers have continued to queue to be included in a pioneering private sector single-interest agreement cast by the AMWU as a response to "dodgy", low-paid contract work.
In a warning to employers about ambiguous drug and alcohol policies, the FWC has in a 50-page decision highlighted the "inadequacy" of a multinational company's code as being among the reasons for reinstating a wharfie sacked for cocaine use.
