An employee who revealed details about his manager's marital status and the company's loss of an important contract in an email to a prospective employer was not unfairly dismissed, the FWC has found.
The Essendon Football Club has today been fined $200,000 by the Victorian Magistrates Court for risking its players' health and failing to keep a safe workplace during its 2011-2012 supplements program.
Making a project manager redundant after granting his request to be transferred to a less secure position did not constitute adverse action as the new role was better for his mental health and the employer's decision was based on his competence, qualifications, tenure and a business downturn, a court has found.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of an employee who harangued a colleague before pushing him fully clothed into a swimming pool during the company's Christmas party.
The AMWU is experiencing membership losses that threaten its future, according to a confidential review of the union led by former ACTU secretary Greg Combet.
A full Federal Court has quashed a finding that a $45,000 penalty imposed on the CFMEU should be paid to the federal government, because it would have provided a "windfall" gain for an organiser the union subjected to adverse action.
Senior FWC member Joe Catanzariti, former sex discrimination commissioner Liz Broderick and IR practitioner Warren Stooke have been recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours.
A tribunal has awarded a record $330,000 damages payout to a sexually harassed postal worker, after the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission responded to an invitation to intervene and make submissions on compensation.
The FWC has confirmed the MUA's right to represent "waterside workers" employed by the construction contractor for the Darwin Harbour facilities being built as part of INPEX's major Ichthys LNG project.
