The FWC has found that an HR manager should have provided a better briefing to another manager before a meeting where he was to sack a long-serving employee.
Jetstar Airways must reinstate a 60-year-old engineer it dismissed for driving a "tow tug" – usually used only in airports – on a public road to go and buy his lunch, the FWC ruled today.
An ANZ state director sacked for allegedly altering a confidential internal email and forwarding it to a journalist has today been awarded more than $100,000 for wrongful dismissal by the NSW Court of Appeal.
An employer must compensate a bullied employee it forced to resign, after the FWC found he was unfairly dismissed for failing to comply with an unreasonable request to be examined by a company-nominated doctor.
An FWC full bench has overturned a "counter-intuitive" decision to compensate a worker dismissed for his blatant disregard of his employer's drug and alcohol and OHS policies.
The FWC has ordered an employer to pay more than $25,000 compensation to a truck driver it sacked for serious misconduct, based on "flimsy" CCTV evidence.
The FWC has refused to reinstate a dismissed teacher, because her school lost trust and confidence in her after she posted disparaging comments on Facebook about an unresolved industrial dispute.
Prior employee misconduct that did not result in dismissal but demonstrates a "pattern of unacceptable behaviour" must be considered when determining unfair dismissal cases, a Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled.
An employer had a valid reason to sack a long-serving courier who had "no choice" but to defecate in a client's carpark while on the job, but his dismissal without notice was unfair, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The FWC has found even the "most basic" of HR advice would have avoided the "error laden and unfair" dismissal of a 457 visa holder employed under an exploitative arrangement in which she worked as a motel senior manager on the proviso that her partner toiled for free.