A FWC member has recited an employer's own correspondence and evidence in throwing out its jurisdictional objections to an adverse action case on the basis that it never dismissed the worker and she lodged the application late, in a ruling that reveals a big payout for continuing use of images of the worker's distinctive tattoos.
A guest services worker at one of the country's largest shopping centres might have avoided the sack if she had promptly returned a $130 voucher mistaken for a gift, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has overturned a commissioner's decision to "unilaterally" and without warning "administratively close" a general protections claim based on his incorrect belief that the parties had reached a settlement.
More working days lost, as PABOs burgeon; Super Retail suppression orders upheld; Most rapid membership growth in youngest workers: ACTU; and NSW IRC seminar on awards.
The FWC has refused to hear a BP worker's three-day late challenge to her sacking after she revealed she ignored a clear direction not to record the disciplinary meeting at which the employer summarily sacked her.
A newly-approved federal code of practice provides "practical guidance to employers" to help protect workers against workplace sexual harassment, according to workplace relations minister Murray Watt.
A transport company is to be referred to the FWO over its "alarming" indifference to its obligations as an employer, after an unfair dismissal case in which it exhibited "disregard" for the FWC before being ordered to pay $30,000 to a former worker sacked without warning.
The FWC has ruled an employer had a right to refuse to pay sick leave to a worker recently warned about his "particularly excessive" use of the entitlement, while finding it nevertheless "irrelevant" whether cosmetic surgery or a burst appendix explained his absence.
A mining truck driver's mobile phone use, detected by an infra-red driver alertness system, justified her dismissal, after what the FWC deemed to be a fair investigation process.
The big banks and retailers are resisting the TWU's novel application to urgently bring together all the parties involved in the cash-in-transit contractual chain for discussions at a conference tomorrow, foreshadowing that they are likely to challenge the FWC's power to entertain the case.
