The "unique" circumstances leading to a security guard being caught asleep in his own car during an overnight shift rendered his sacking unfair, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has quashed a finding that the ACT's education department unfairly sacked a teacher who crossed boundaries with students, including by messaging them and providing lifts, remitting the case to another member for redetermination.
In a revealing decision about the atmosphere at some FWC conciliation conferences, a tribunal member has declined to recuse himself from further hearing a matter despite accepting that a teenage worker and her father "may have taken umbrage" at his tone when expressing frustration at their propensity to stray off-topic.
A New Zealand resident employed by an Australian-registered business has failed to win extra time to file an unfair dismissal claim held up by his "dual jurisdiction misapprehension".
An ICT company will have to compensate a worker it immediately dismissed because she copied clients into an email announcing that she intended to resign.
A senior early childhood teacher summarily dismissed after being told to be more tolerant of racist and N-zi views has won compensation of more than $41,000.
The FWC is seeking feedback on its provisional view that it should order Secure Parking to reinstate a full-time compliance manager to a part-time position, finding Japanese-owned company unfairly dismissed him during a cost-cutting redundancy round.
The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked mine site cleaner who said he had been too drunk to remember skinny-dipping after being "egged on" by colleagues at a Christmas party in their accommodation village.
A senior FWC member should not have discounted a doctor's evidence that a worker possessed the "sound mind" required to understand the consequences of his resignation, a full bench has found.
