A labour supplier has failed to win costs against the AWU, after claiming that a PALM scheme worker had not authorised the union to file an unfair dismissal claim that it ultimately discontinued.
The FWC has cleared a general manager's late unfair sacking claim to proceed after a law firm's graduate employee advised him to file it in the wrong jurisdiction, finding it "unreasonable and unrealistic" to assume the GM had been in a good position to identify the correct forum.
Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
The Federal Court has run out of patience with a litigious solicitor whose numerous cases include "scandalous" allegations about a law firm and a FWC member, effectively blocking him from pursuing any further claims, to safeguard the legal system's "finite resources".
A FWC full bench has thrown out a nurse's challenge to his sacking, endorsing earlier findings that he improperly used personal leave to campaign in a union election.
The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
The FWC has ordered compensation for a daycare educator sacked after a child "sneakily" escaped into an outdoor play area and went unsupervised for 10 minutes.
A serial-offending IR advisory business has drawn criticism from the FWC for setting "an unacceptably low bar", this time after it failed to check that it correctly filed a worker's unfair dismissal claim within the 21-day limit.
The FWC has made it clear that it is not its role to protect the personal assets of directors, in dismissing a mining services contractor's request to escape paying $190,000 in redundancies.
The FWC has found that an engineer's "extremely insulting" WhatsApp messages about his manager, sent to colleagues on a day off, warranted his summary sacking, while nevertheless awarding him $14,000 compensation because the employer denied him a chance to explain.
