An employer had a valid reason to sack a foreign exchange dealer who secretly worked from Bali and Singapore while presenting himself as working from home, but the FWC has found its procedural failings rendered the dismissal unfair.
A full bench has upheld orders requiring a BHP labour hire subsidiary to reinstate to a different mine a worker accused of aggressive conduct, finding a FWC member did not impose an "unmeetable burden" on workplace investigations, while the company's challenge to his colleague's reinstatement order is waiting in the wings.
The FWC has rejected a maintenance manager's "no harm, no foul" defence to his sacking over a failed kickback scheme, finding he engaged in serious misconduct when he deliberately and dishonestly attempted to defraud his employer.
The FWC has declined to extend time by 13 seconds for a prison guard sacked for failing to disclose his involvement in a s-xual harassment case that resulted in a young worker receiving $125,000 compensation.
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.
