After rebuffing a recusal bid, the FWC has dismissed a worker's anti-bullying claim against his migration agent, who has made it very clear she wants nothing more to do with him.
A schoolteacher "absurdly" sacked for yelling at students has won maximum compensation, after a FWC member retreated from his initial order to reinstate her.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has told a senior manager it lacks the power to declare Bunnings breached whistleblower laws when it allegedly sacked him after he accused it of short-changing staff, but it can award compensation if his claims succeed as part of his adverse action case.
A worker's covert recordings of disciplinary meetings might have been lawful if he had only used them to "aid his recall", rather than submitting the audio and transcripts as evidence in his unfair dismissal case, the FWC has ruled.
The FWC has backed the sacking of a worker who shoved and swore at a woman as they rode an elevator towards his office, rejecting his claims of self-defence and that the employer's code of conduct did not apply because his shift had not started.
With employers said to be using artificial intelligence for everything from recruitment and rostering to forecasting industrial action, an employment lawyer is urging IR practitioners to consider the legal, ethical and practical issues.
An employer's request for a medical certificate demonstrating a senior manager's fitness for work after an extended absence would have been unlawful and unreasonable if his contract had not required him to participate in medical examinations.
The "labour productivity bubble" that arose during the COVID-19 pandemic can provide lessons for the future, and hybrid working can be more beneficial to productivity than wholly working from home or the workplace, according to a new Productivity Commission report.
Just 6% of clerical workers who seek WFH arrangements are knocked back by their employer, according to a new Swinburne University study commissioned by the FWC as part of the work from home test case.
A retrenched educator who rejected an alternative role because she wanted to keep working from home at least a day a week has lost her severance entitlements, after the FWC found she did not have a formal right to maintain her flexible arrangements.
