A FWC full bench has dismissed an "unusual" unfair dismissal jurisdictional appeal, finding that a worker who took a pay cut due to his employer's financial struggles fell below the high income cap despite the company arguing that the Commission's compensation order proved his pay exceeded the threshold.
An employer must pay more than $50,000 to compensate a supervisor it victimised by forcing her to take leave and change roles after she complained that a male colleague sexually-harassed her when he stared at her breasts.
The Federal Court will consider whether to fine BHP Coal and order compensation after finding it took unlawful adverse action by excluding a Workpac labour hire worker because he exercised his workplace rights, including by complaining about allegedly unsafe practices.
A flight attendant sacked from a Sydney billionaire's private jet for refusing to change hotels before a flight from LA has won compensation, after the FWC found the employer wrongly applied pilots' rest rules and subjected her to an unreasonable order given the time it took her to shop for food for passengers and crew on the long-haul flight.
The FWC has tentatively listed a March hearing to deal with a RAFFWU bid to axe Apple's 2014 agreement, which claims that reverting to the retail award will strengthen workers' conditions and bargaining position and accuses the $3 trillion company of treating permanent employees like casuals.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has referred hospitality company Mantle Group's HR manager to the Australian Federal Police for possible criminal prosecution after the tribunal found he deliberately provided false or misleading information about a substandard agreement that allowed the employer to ask workers to perform voluntary additional hours without penalty rates.
A judge has been forced to pick apart a full court's remittal order before determining that he must rehear a worker's adverse action case afresh rather than merely considering "updated" evidence.
The AWU has warned that Woodside's HR team faces a "learning curve" after the union yesterday won a hard-fought majority support determination forcing the energy giant to the negotiating table with its offshore platform employees for the first time in more than three decades.
The FWC has lamented the "failings" of an IR advisory business that wrongly told an on-hire worker to bring his general protections claim against his host employer.
The FWC has declared after eight unfair dismissal applications and 24 matters in total over two years that it will no longer entertain a persistent worker's quest for satisfaction through the tribunal.
