The CFMMEU's mining division has asked the FWC to intervene after almost two years of fruitless bargaining for enterprise agreements covering internal labour hire companies run by BHP's Operations Services.
The FWC has acknowledged both the work/family difficulties faced by remote workers and employers' challenges in managing employees scattered across the country in upholding the dismissal of a FIFO mine worker sacked for abandoning his employment after he left work without approved leave and failed to provide a return date.
A senior FWC member has lambasted an "incompetent" and "belligerent" representative involved in numerous challenges to vaccination-related dismissals, bemoaning that a regulatory gap prevented him from awarding costs against the offending individual.
A foreign exchange dealer sacked after unwittingly becoming entangled in a $23,000 fraud will have his unfair dismissal case reheard after a FWC bench agreed a tribunal member found him in "serious breach" of a company policy that did not exist.
A Victorian Police fingerprint expert has been reinstated after the FWC found her dismissal for "deceitfully" calling her detective husband's ex-lover during work hours both disproportionate and harsh in terms of its financial impact.
An employer had no basis for summarily dismissing a real estate employee who tested positive for COVID-19 five days after ignoring directions to wear a mask when inspecting the property of an aged care worker, the FWC has found.
A Federal Court judge has moved swiftly to shut down a legal representative for 18 airline workers seeking damages for COVID-19 vaccination-related sackings after he sent "obscene [and] threatening" emails to the defendants' lawyers and in-house IR teams.
A large employer had no need to pay for external lawyers when it could have relied on its HR team to argue against a former employee's "straightforward" vaccination case, the FWC has found.
The FWC has declined to hear the unfair sacking case of a vaccinated worker who passed up "at least" eight chances to confirm her inoculation status before her employer dismissed then reinstated her within 48 hours.
In an important decision holding that a largely unpaid advisor was a tech start-up's employee rather than an independent contractor, the FWC has relied on the in-principle acceptance of his "far from comprehensive" proposal and the way in which the contract was performed.
