The FWC has ordered an alpine resort operator to pay $14,000 to a former general manager sacked over allegations he covertly overpaid his partner and allowed staff to drive company vehicles while drunk or high on drugs.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a worker sacked while on remand as he faced stalking and domestic violence charges, finding his employer's reliance on the criminal allegations "premature" and "unjust".
A NSW IRC full bench has upheld a ruling that a sacked interpreter breached a Commission practice note by failing to seek leave to file AI-generated material that then turned out to be inaccurate, warning that unrepresented applicants cannot expect leniency after such transgressions.
Property advisory business Savills has failed to persuade the Federal Court to throw out all of a senior employee's claims of discrimination, victimisation and "extreme and repetitive" s-xual harassment by a managing director.
A workplace racial vilification complaint has failed because it did not meet the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act's requirement that it involve a "public act", in a ruling that also found the self-represented employee a dishonest witness because of his reliance on artificial intelligence to prepare and run his case.
In a decision further expanding the breadth of flexibility requests, a senior FWC member has "with some hesitation" found that a warehouse's ban on mobile phones falls under the statutory definition of a "working arrangement" that can be changed.
The FSU is pushing the Commonwealth Bank for agreement-enshrined limits on its ability to monitor workers and use the data, claiming outdated laws are otherwise giving employers "free rein" to monitor every keystroke or conversation and keep tabs on toilet breaks.
The FWC has upheld Westpac's sacking of a veteran loan manager found to have accepted payments from customers and misused WhatsApp, with the tribunal rejecting his claims that it carried out a sham investigation in retaliation for his "whistleblowing".
In a decision shining a light on real-world tensions in applying workplace safety policies, the FWC has reinstated a 67-year-old bottle shop attendant sacked after she feigned closing a roller door to spur a "swarm" of thieves to leave the store.
A federal authority's concerns that a dispute resolution specialist will miss out on face-to-face connections by working from home 100% of the time while looking after his child are among reasonable business grounds for refusing his request, the FWC has held.
