A HR/IR manager who resigned briefly before taking up a casual position with the same employer has fallen short of the minimum period for pursuing an unfair dismissal case, despite assurances her continuity of employment would be preserved.
An employee pressing to solely work from home did not abandon or repudiate her employment by moving interstate against the employer's express wishes, the FWC has found.
The FWC has extended time for a worker to contest her dismissal, finding it warranted due to her mistaken attempt to dispute it in another tribunal, combined with the strong merits of her claim.
A judge has rejected a former employee's $2 million-plus compensation claim after finding her unlawful sacking was not "the cause or even a material contributing cause" of an alleged psychological injury and that she would have lost her job anyway within months.
An alleged whistleblower's explosive allegations against franchising business Jim's Group may be headed for hearing, after a court gave him an extension of time and let him file an amended claim.
The "unique" circumstances leading to a security guard being caught asleep in his own car during an overnight shift rendered his sacking unfair, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has quashed a finding that the ACT's education department unfairly sacked a teacher who crossed boundaries with students, including by messaging them and providing lifts, remitting the case to another member for redetermination.
In a revealing decision about the atmosphere at some FWC conciliation conferences, a tribunal member has declined to recuse himself from further hearing a matter despite accepting that a teenage worker and her father "may have taken umbrage" at his tone when expressing frustration at their propensity to stray off-topic.
A New Zealand resident employed by an Australian-registered business has failed to win extra time to file an unfair dismissal claim held up by his "dual jurisdiction misapprehension".
