The FWC has ordered reinstatement for a professor who sent "intimate and romantic" messages to a student, including a photo of himself in his boxers, finding that his seven-year unblemished record since his recently-uncovered relationship mitigated his behaviour.
A worker who threatened his managers that he would set bikies on them and that he had "a bullet with your name on it" resigned in the "heat of the moment" and should have been given the chance to retract it, but the FWC has upheld his dismissal because his menacing behaviour amounted to serious misconduct.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a wharfie who tested positive for cocaine, rejecting employer arguments that the Commission's approach to appeals is "broadly wrong" and should involve reassessing a case rather than searching for errors in the original decision.
The FWC has ruled that a law firm unfairly dismissed an underpaid paralegal working remotely from the Philippines, after it previously rejected the firm's claim that it had engaged her as a contractor.
A council overreacted when it sacked a worker for complaining that acknowledgements of country are "getting out of hand" after their introduction at toolbox meetings, the FWC has found.
In the FWC's first ruling on new laws enabling road transport contractors to contest termination, the FWC has ruled that a director of a delivery company cannot make a claim because he did not perform a "significant majority" of the work, delegating it to others instead.
A paid agent from the "school of hard knocks" is facing a costs bill of almost $30,000 after an employer racked up unnecessary legal expenses due to his unreasonable handling of a worker's unfair sacking case.
The FWC has cleared the way for a project manager to pursue his unfair dismissal claim after finding his retention payments do not push him above the high-income threshold as they are not "earnings".
A schoolteacher "absurdly" sacked for yelling at students has won maximum compensation, after a FWC member retreated from his initial order to reinstate her.
