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Time-keeping flaws, name-calling justify lawyer's sacking

The FWC has upheld a law firm's dismissal of a solicitor accused of "gaming" its timekeeping system to boost a junior colleague's billable hours and telling an opposing practitioner his client was a "c-nt".

Predictable on-call allowance nudges worker over income ceiling

The FWC has ruled a regular on-call allowance pushed a worker over the high income threshold, defeating his unfair dismissal claim.

Abusive out-of-hours texts a sacking offence: FWC

The FWC has backed the Commonwealth Bank's sacking of an "insubordinate" worker who argued it could not discipline him for pummelling his manager with abusive text messages because he sent them outside of working hours.

Initial hearing next month for crucial WFH award case

FWC president Adam Hatcher will convene a directions hearing next month into the Commission's own-initiative case to develop a "workable" award clause that removes impediments to working from home.

Commission's "incorrect" advice warrants extension

The FWC has extended time for a worker's general protections application after one of its employees gave her "inappropriate" advice, after which she discontinued her initial claims.

COVID-19 fear does not justify WFH request: FWC

The FWC has found that a worker failed to establish an "objective rational connection" between her age and her flexible working request, after she resisted ANZ's hybrid working policy and asked to work 100% from home because of her fear of catching COVID-19.

Non-competes should attract income-based compensation: Submission

Legal Aid NSW is calling for the Government to implement a complete ban on restraint of trade clauses for all vulnerable workers, including independent contractors, casual, gig, and employee-like workers, and other workers should receive compensation for non-competes based on a proportion of their income.

"Accident" in trousers no excuse for dodging drug test: FWC

The FWC has upheld the summary dismissal of a forklift driver, after he left work to avoid a drug test, claiming that he had an "accident" in his trousers.

Curb employers' blood lust: Union

The Electrical Trades Union is urging the Albanese Government to close gaps in privacy laws to stop resource employers routinely breaching workers' privacy with mandatory blood sampling before they are engaged, warning that the model is being promoted "as a standard step in the recruitment process in all industries in Australia".

$15 million fine for deliberately fleecing migrant workers

The Federal Court has imposed a record penalty on a sushi restaurant chain to "disabuse" employers of the notion that penalties for underpayments are "an acceptable cost of doing business" and recommended that the Fair Work Ombudsman refer its chief executive's potential flouting of tax and migration laws to the ATO, Department of Home Affairs and ASIC.

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