The Spotless group has avoided paying an 11-week redundancy to a facilities manager it dismissed after nearly seven years, a tribunal finding that the split was an instance of "ordinary and customary turnover of labour".
Contested-facts dismissal case should have gone to hearing: Bench; Member's "significant error" in considering legal representation; FWC rejects employer's costs bid in Coty "ugly emails" case.
An FWC full bench majority has thrown out a a company's challenge to a decision requiring it to reinstate an injured worker to his previous role and ensure he receives "work hardening".
An FWC full bench has ordered a re-examination of the sacking of a worker for his "nonchalance" towards OHS obligations, lack of contrition after a workplace mishap and failure to wear safety glasses.
An FWC full bench has quashed an order requiring a worker's representative, due to his unreasonable acts or omissions, to pay more than $11,000 of the employer's costs in an unfair dismissal case.
The FWC had found that an unresolved dispute extended a worker's employment beyond the six month qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal.
A full Federal Court has upheld the Australian Defence Force's right to sack an outspoken army reservist over his "extreme" and "wholly unacceptable" social media comments about Islam and a transgender colleague.
Sacking a transit officer for "excessive force" when he used capsicum spray on a threatening 12-year-old boy was unfair because the employer should have considered demoting him instead, a tribunal has found.
