A delivery driver was left with no choice but to resign when he had his hours cut after complaining his former mother-in-law was s-xually harassing him at work, the FWC has found.
A council security guard ruled to have been fairly dismissed may have achieved a different outcome if he had been allowed legal representation, an FWC bench has found.
The ACTU, acting on behalf of seven aviation unions, will today file an adverse action case against Qantas for making the payment of a cash bonus of up to $2,000 contingent on securing new post-wage-freeze enterprise agreements.
A fortnight after deciding not to take compliance action against Uber, the FWO has dropped its Federal Court action against Foodora on the basis it would be "highly unlikely" to garner additional payments for its former workforce or penalties against the company.
The FWC has thrown out the unfair dismissal claims of a family accused of running a private school like they owned it and improperly spending more than $1 million on overseas trips, loan repayments and cash payouts while granting themselves substantial "back pay" and bonuses.
An FWC member gave due recognition to the reduction of employees' bargaining power that would flow from him acceding to a DP World bid to extend notice for CFMMEU industrial action from three to five days, according to reasons issued by a full Federal Court today.
In ordering the reinstatement of an "impatient" veteran crane operator sacked after his third safety breach in a year, an FWC member has examined BlueScope Steel's "proactive attitude" to discipline and recommended it negotiate a better process.
An FWC member hearing a jurisdictional objection in an unfair dismissal case wrongly ruled that he should automatically exclude video evidence that he found had been unlawfully obtained, a full bench has ruled today.
