An experienced HR manager, who also played a central role in his employer's doomed attempt to establish an enterprise union, failed to do any of the "basic things" expected of his profession when he seized on the first opportunity to sack a worker threatening to take bullying and harassment claims to "Fair Work", a court has found.
The FWC in upholding the sacking of an unvaccinated KFC worker has found it "regrettable" HR sent auto-generated letters that led her to believe she was dismissed for abandoning her job.
A FWC full bench has overturned the reinstatement of a ANU professor sacked for his "s-xually intimate" interactions with a student while skinny-dipping, while underlining that its ruling had nothing to do with being "wowserish".
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a multinational business's sales representative who ignored repeated warnings that she had crossed the chief executive's "line in the sand" over speeding in company cars.
A tribunal has backed the sacking of a Queensland police officer who helped his wife avoid a possible drink driving charge after crashing while almost three times over the limit, observing in passing that not all his character references assisted his case.
A former JB HiFi worker's objection to a settlement term preventing her from ever working for the company again after an "unsavoury" incident was not enough to revive her unfair dismissal claim, the FWC has found.
A FWC senior member who once served as Fortescue's HR manager has observed in the course of granting its bid to transfer outsourced workers to a direct-employment deal that doing the same work for lesser conditions "inevitably" leads to discontent and would be "unfair".
The FWC has upheld an employer's entitlement to sack a depressed worker who could no longer perform his job after 33 years, but held it fluffed its lines by failing to extend him the "courtesy" of a chance to respond to its decision.
Queensland's IRC has upheld the State health department's decision to demote and impose a significant pay cut on a nurse accused of stealing and self-administering drugs valued at $3 to treat a headache during a busy shift at a rural hospital.
An aged care provider must compensate a caterer after providing insufficient warning that failing to wear masks correctly could lead to summary dismissal, the FWC has found.
