A FWC full bench has refused a long-serving mineworker's bid to overturn his dismissal for making culturally insensitive remarks about some indigenous youths on his employer’s two-way radio network.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the summary dismissal of a Hunter Valley mineworker because of his dishonesty in response to a positive test result for methamphetamines.
The Fair Work Commission has imposed costs on a Melbourne law firm and its client for a "series of cumulative unreasonable acts" that resulted in a "calamity" for both parties in an unsuccessful unfair dismissal case.
Endeavour Energy has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission to revoke or significantly amend its earlier single member and full bench rulings that the company must use saliva based (swab) tests to detect drugs such as cannabis rather than urine tests.
The CFMEU is facing indefinite suspension of its rights to enter at least four major building sites after the Fair Work Commission found that officials – at the union's direction - engaged in "serious, deliberate and sustained misuse of entry rights" at several South Australian projects late last year.
An internal restructure that made his position redundant, rather than adverse action due to his workplace complaints, led to the dismissal of an "experienced and highly competent" cardiothoracic and transplant surgeon, the Federal Court has found.
A paramedic was not dismissed because he persistently exercised his workplace rights to complain or inquire about his employment but because of his aggressive behaviour towards managers, the Federal Court has found.
FWO media releases claiming that it was prosecuting an employer were misleading because they implied "criminal activity" was involved, the Federal Court has ruled.
CFMEU construction and general division Victorian branch secretary John Setka has suffered another setback in his long-running defamation case against Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Sky News, after a court rejected another attempt to limit defence arguments available to Abbott and the news organisation.
The Federal Court has ordered the CFMEU (construction and general division) and WA branch assistant secretary Joe McDonald to pay a total of $193,600 for their part in an unlawful stopwork at a Pilbara site.
