The FWC has upheld the sacking of a mineworker for failing to disclose his use of prescription medicinal cannabis on his days off, despite the fact he passed all drug tests and left a 32-hour buffer before the start of his working weeks.
In what is believed to be the first workplace breastfeeding discrimination ruling, a tribunal has found that a KFC franchisee indirectly discriminated against a worker when it told her to express milk in a tent, within a storeroom with no door.
The FWC will consider the late unfair dismissal claim of a worker who believes his employer sacked him for alleged sexual harassment, after receiving evidence that five law firms rejected his case on one day alone.
The FWC has upheld a business owner's on-the-spot sacking of his newly separated-wife when she refused to hand over an account password, finding their interpersonal conflict and her failure to follow directions trumped a flawed dismissal process.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a dump truck driver dismissed after a "deeply flawed" investigation into allegations he exposed a female trainee to explicit images while passing around his phone.
A FWC member incorrectly apportioned the burden of proof and applied the wrong test for "reasonable" self-defence in ordering reinstatement of a train driver sacked after fighting with a stranger on a station concourse, a full bench has found.
The FWC might refer a "regrettable, expensive and damaging episode" to the South Australian Correctional Services Department, after it failed to allow a worker on remand to contact his employer, and the employer dismissed him for failing to attend work.
Lawyers from the Redfern Legal Centre and Human Rights Law Centre are looking for s-xual harassment lawyers and industrial officers to complete surveys on the use of non-disclosure agreements in settling s-xual harassment claims, as part of a Sydney University program.
The FWC has held that a $1200 professional association membership is a not a non-monetary benefit that counts towards the high-income threshold for unfair dismissal claims.
The FWC has thrown out a cafe's argument that a worker who performed a single paid "trial shift" had not yet been engaged and could not bring a general protections case against it.
