The former national HR manager of the country's biggest tug operator made a "snap decision based on... irritation" when she chose to unlawfully dismiss a senior port manager because he rejected a new role central to restructuring plans, a court has found.
The FWC has wiped-out the redundancy entitlements of two visa workers who shunned an alternative role that would have enabled them to keep working from their shared apartment.
A business that fell deeply into debt and then collapsed after its owner's multiple sclerosis diagnosis has been absolved of making redundancy payments, after the FWC took into account its circumstances.
Consultation has begun on the 2028 closure of EnergyAustralia's Yallourn power station, as the just transition authority develops guidelines for its grant program.
The FWC has made its first "community of interest" determination for a closing power station, clearing the way for displaced workers to be supported by an Energy Industry Jobs Plan.
The FWC has upbraided a small business owner for informing a supervisor through an email drafted with help from ChatGPT that it had decided to retrench her, finding that sacking a worker via such a "cursory" means fails "to adhere to basic standards of decency".
A former parliamentary officer who took a "shock and awe" approach and went "nuclear" after a federal MP made him redundant post-election has lost his bid to pursue an adverse action case in tandem with a discrimination claim.
A judge has slapped an $8000 penalty on a major Commonwealth department after expressing astonishment that it does not have a "human or technological" system in place to ensure it pays dismissed employees their correct entitlements.
The High Court has unanimously rejected mining giant Peabody's challenge to a finding that it failed to satisfy workplace laws governing redundancies when not properly considering alternative roles for 22 workers dismissed in 2020, ruling that the FWC was within its rights to delve into options like replacing already-engaged contractors.
The High Court will on Wednesday hand down its ruling on what mining giant Peabody says is a "critical" test of the laws governing whether a redundancy is genuine.
