The FWC has decided not to compensate a Queensland hotel worker unlawfully stood down after she refused to temporarily reduce her hours, finding it would be unfair to her employer and colleagues who agreed to "share the burden of the pandemic".
A court has awarded $67,000 to a construction worker "crushed" by his foreman's suggestion that he would end up earning 50% less on non-union jobs if he didn't re-join the CFMMEU.
An online retailer that allegedly hired a competitor's employees is facing a "significant" financial hit after the Federal Court blocked it from selling substantially the same products until it can determine whether the workers shared confidential information about Chinese suppliers.
A plumbing company has been ordered to pay $50,000 to a Maori truck driver regularly racially abused by a co-director, a judge however rejecting that being called a "sheep shagger" formed part of the discrimination.
The FWC has ordered a chief executive to compensate his ex-wife $27,000 for unfairly sacking her from their start-up, finding he used the COVID-19 downturn to "disguise" her dismissal as a redundancy soon after they separated.
A medical recruiter that sacked a manager over an "under-investigated suspicion" he took confidential information from its database must compensate him after the FWC found it was so focused on building a Supreme Court case it failed to provide procedural fairness.
Amcor must compensate an injured worker by paying him for two months it should have granted as unpaid leave before sacking him, the FWC finding the packaging giant's failure to inform itself of obligations "disappointing and disturbing" given its size and HR resources.
A hospitality business and its director have been hit with a $36,000 fine after they "snubbed their noses" at the FWC by failing to comply on time with orders to pay an unfairly sacked barista $5780 compensation.
An aged care facility manager accusing a HR manager of "gaslighting" her by failing to reveal she was being investigated claims she returned from leave to find a complaints meeting underway in her own office.
A weight loss surgeon accused of sexual harassment is claiming in a $17 million adverse action and breach of contract case that colleagues engaged in an "illegal means conspiracy" to damage him professionally after he blew the whistle on them.
