A tribunal has upheld the suspension without pay of a nurse accused of s-xually assaulting a co-worker in their shared employer-provided accommodation, despite his claims it would be unfair when the allegations are "utterly untested".
The FWC has taken on board a FIFO Shell worker's failure to attend physiotherapy appointments after breaking his back, in dismissing a dispute over the flexible work job-share bids he and a colleague lodged to ease their way into retirement.
The FWC has declined to get involved in the potential sacking of a law professor accused of kissing a student on an "immersion" trip to Paris, despite finding flaws in the disciplinary process.
The FWC has awarded $4000 compensation to an allegedly unhelpful IT help desk employee, reminding employers that performance-managing workers is about clear expectations and the steps required to meet them rather than "handholding".
The FWC has awarded almost $25,000 to a former nightclub bookkeeper after finding that the company did not sufficiently remove her ex-husband and majority owner from the decision to sack her for mistakenly posting a t-pless photo in a workplace WhatsApp group.
The nursing union is prosecuting an aged care provider it accuses of over-counting the "care minutes" that are a key part of the Albanese Government's reforms to lift standards in the sector.
A worker's one-day-late general protections claim can proceed, after the FWC accepted that the AMWU's withdrawal from representing him just two days before the filing deadline left him "temporarily incapacitated".
The FWC will insert a working from home term in the clerical award that provides for employees to request WFH arrangements, but it has found no basis for a "major regulatory intervention" to compel employers to act.
The FWC has found that Woolworths' managers did not bully an employee when it put her under "undue pressure" as it sought to lift her department's performance, but suggested the retail giant undertake "more proactive intervention" to address issues in the workplace.
An executive on a major Victorian Government infrastructure project who accepted a large severance package could not "seriously" contend he departed reluctantly when he elected to pocket a $50,000 payment instead of taking part in a further redeployment process, the FWC has found.
