A Federal Court judge has while fining a franchisor almost $500,000 for deliberately underpaying Taiwanese interns speculated that a recent High Court ruling will impel more parties to agree on penalties rather than go to trial, an "unfortunate by-product" being fewer judgments offering "yardsticks" for future cases.
The FWC has upheld the demotion of a Catholic school teacher who continually undermined the schools' leadership before maintaining that his "only master was God".
A tram driver whose failure to disclose his stroke "strikes at the heart of the employment relationship" has failed to establish that his employer unfairly sacked him, despite one of the employer's doctors breaching confidentiality requirements to set the record straight.
The FWC has endorsed the consultation process Woolworths used before it rolled-out a group-wide COVID-19 vaccination policy, rejecting a "most unusual" unfair dismissal case in which a worker's social media sprays clashed with his claims that the company left him in the dark.
The Federal Court has refused an extension of almost three years for a former Cricket Tasmania receptionist to pursue allegations that former Australian test cricket captain Tim Paine and other Cricket Tasmania employees s-xually harassed her between 2015 and 2017.
A lawyer's failure to act with the "level of diligence and expertise required of a competent practitioner" caused a four-day delay in filing his client's unfair dismissal claim rather than the attack of gastroenteritis that ran through his family, the FWC has held.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld a finding that a labour hire company must make redundancy payments to a dozen employees, detailing the steps made by its chief people officer but ruling it didn't do enough to procure alternative employment for its workforce.
A FWC full bench has lashed energy giant Woodside for its "impertinent" suggestion that a senior tribunal member should have supplied evidence that directions she issued while considering an AWU majority support bid, came from a Commission template.
A senior FWC member has refused to recuse himself for addressing a worker's representative as "mister" in an unfair dismissal case that argued an employer should have permitted an unvaccinated employee to keep working from home during COVID-19 restrictions instead of sacking her.
A worker who claims FWC President Iain Ross admitted to having a problem with commissioners' "colonial attitude" has lost his Federal Court bid to sue the tribunal for racial discrimination.
