The FWC has accepted that a company made a HR manager redundant on her return from parental leave due to her discomfort with interviewing English-speaking job candidates and downsizing directions from its Chinese head office, rather than her status as a new mother.
A FWC full bench has brought the hammer down on under-fire paid agent Employee Dismissals, refusing permission for it to represent any of 46 workers who have made unfair dismissal and general protections applications.
The FWC has ordered the Reserve Bank to pay compensation after its "unnecessarily abrupt" sacking of a long-serving manager while he took leave, finding it led him to believe at the mid-point of a performance management process that he remained "on track" to retain his job.
The FWC has cleared the way for the ACT Greens' former party director to challenge his sacking after rejecting the organisation's jurisdictional objection that his brief term failed to meet the statutory minimum employment period for workers at small employers.
The FWC has upheld the summary dismissal of a forklift driver, after he left work to avoid a drug test, claiming that he had an "accident" in his trousers.
The FWC has accepted a casual worker's five-weeks-late unfair dismissal claim after finding that the employer gave him the impression that his employment would continue pending an investigation, and then ignored any further contact attempts.
A FWC member has found no plausible reason for a boilermaker's co-workers and managers to conspire to have him sacked for allegedly drawing a p-nis on a client's fuel tanker, concluding that the more likely explanation lay in a colleague's suggestion that he simply had a "brain fart".
Rex airlines group's administrators have retrenched almost 600 employees, making them priority creditors, but if they end up relying on the FEG scheme, they're in for a long wait.
The FWC has extended time for a worker's unfair dismissal claim by 24 days because his employer, which "flouted its legal employment obligations and ignored the FWO", withheld his payslips and employment contract, preventing him from identifying the entity that employed him.
