An FWC full bench has quashed an order requiring a worker's representative, due to his unreasonable acts or omissions, to pay more than $11,000 of the employer's costs in an unfair dismissal case.
The FWC has ruled that logistics company Qube was justified in sacking a veteran wharfie who lied about damaging property and described the company's chair, waterfront warrior Chris Corrigan, as a "pig" on Facebook.
The NUW has today asked its former NSW leader Derrick Belan about evidence he gave to the Heydon Royal Commission, as it defends his brother Nick's unfair dismissal claim in the FWC.
A full Federal Court has concluded that BHP Coal was entitled to sack a boilermaker who refused to attend a medical appointment to assess his fitness to return to work.
The FWC had found that an unresolved dispute extended a worker's employment beyond the six month qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal.
A full Federal Court has upheld the Australian Defence Force's right to sack an outspoken army reservist over his "extreme" and "wholly unacceptable" social media comments about Islam and a transgender colleague.
Sacking a transit officer for "excessive force" when he used capsicum spray on a threatening 12-year-old boy was unfair because the employer should have considered demoting him instead, a tribunal has found.
A BHP Coal employee with a "cavalier" attitude towards workplace dangers has been awarded more than $25,000 in compensation after being "effectively frozen out" out of a flawed investigation into an alleged safety breach.
The FWC has rejected an employer's jurisdictional objections to hearing the dismissal appeal of an employee over the high-income cap who worked on overseas assignments, finding that while he fell outside the enterprise agreement he was covered by the industry award.
