Late employer evidence about the alleged behaviour in a pub of a slaughterperson who was waiting to find out if he would win his job back after being validly but unfairly dismissed has failed to prevent him winning a reinstatement order.
A lawyer who has used a little-known legislative provision to secure hundreds of thousands of dollars of funding for individuals to run workplace discrimination claims says the High Court's Purvis ruling has "rendered useless" laws preventing sex and pregnancy bias on the job.
The employer bid to change penalty rates is shaping as a massive case in the Fair Work Commission that will run until late next year, with almost 200 witnesses to be called over more than 100 hearing days.
A chief financial officer who is seeking $1m in damages for wrongful dismissal from his bankrupt employer will have to compete with other ordinary creditors for the funds, after the Federal Court ruled the sum is not a "retrenchment payment" under corporations law.
An Australia Post supervisor found to have been unfairly dismissed for emailing pornography on the organisation's system has lost his reinstatement bid, with a Fair Work Commission full bench holding it reasonable to expect higher standards from him than from his more junior co-workers who won their jobs back.
Woolworths discriminated against online job applicants by requiring them to provide their gender, date of birth and proof of their right to work in Australia, a tribunal has ruled.
Former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson is a free man today, but lighter in the pocket, after the Victorian County Court decided against sending him to prison for stealing $5,000 from the union.
The secretary of the HSU's Victoria No 1 branch, Diana Asmar, has been returned with a resounding majority, but still faces scrutiny over the branch's alleged failure to follow procedures for issuing entry permits to organisers.
The Fair Work Commission has revoked its only substantive bullying order, after the worker who complained about her male colleague told the tribunal their workplace conflict was now "negligible".
