Stevedoring giant DP World was entitled to summarily dismiss an MUA delegate who called a colleague a "f--king lagger" and instructed another worker to lie in a related investigation, and the sacking did not amount to adverse action, the Federal Court has ruled today.
The Fair Work Commission has found unreasonable some of the conduct a company managing director claimed was "reasonable performance management", but has dismissed a senior employee's application for anti-bullying orders because he was on an expired fixed-term contract.
A property advisor tacitly accepted a revised employment contract that denied her any entitlement to lucrative post-termination commission payments, the Federal Circuit Court has ruled.
The Federal Court has acknowledged the "ambiguous and confusing" nature of a disputed redundancy clause in a university's enterprise agreement, but has rejected a union bid to impose penalties over 100 forced retrenchments.
Full bench in test case on casual qualifying period; Cooling-off for unfair dismissal settlement recognised; No extension of time for employee who evaded retrenchment notice.
After receiving more than 530 applications for anti-bullying orders in the first nine months of the jurisdiction's operation, the Fair Work Commission has still only issued one order to prevent a worker facing further risks.
A Federal Court full bench has today cautioned against a narrow interpretation of the Fair Work Act's general protections provisions, as it threw out former corporate director Kate Shea's challenge to a ruling that cleared EnergyAustralia of adverse action against her.
The Fair Work Commission has given the go-ahead for protected action ballots at Esso Australia's Victorian gas operations after unions dropped a claim to limit the use of contractors.
Resolving an entrenched workplace conflict by sacking one of the two workers involved wasn't unfair just because the employer could have chosen to sack the other one, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.
Employees should be completely free to choose their superannuation funds, and they should be run by trustee boards dominated by independent directors, according to the Murray financial system inquiry's report.
