A labour hire company has failed to win costs against an unrepresented worker who pursued his unfair dismissal claim through four adverse findings in the FWC and Federal Court, a judge ruling that the employer didn't help its cause by declining to provide an interpreter and by filing confusing and irrelevant material.
A bus driver who replied to a customer complaint by writing "f--k off I know nothing" on his employer's response form did not commit serious misconduct justifying instant dismissal, but his hampering of other employees performing business-critical tasks warranted his sacking, the FWC has found.
A casual waitress who filed an unfair sacking claim almost 50 days after her employer sent her a dismissal letter and removed her from JobKeeper does not need an extension as she was unaware of the development, the FWC has held.
An accountant has been awarded $40,000 after a tribunal found she was forced to resign for allegedly spreading rumours that her employer was conducting an office affair.
An employer's failure to consult and consider ways to keep a worker on the payroll before it dismissed him in the days after JobKeeper's announcement rendered his redundancy non-genuine, the FWC has ruled.
The FWC has granted a 55-day extension for a legally blind worker to challenge his sacking over a Facebook exchange after considering its effect on his mental state and his steps to obtain the assistance of disability and law advocates.
The FWC has endorsed an employer's exemplary performance improvement process in upholding the sacking of an "abrasive" 60-year-old technician whose messy office was said to resemble a boys' bedroom.
An employer that restructured a senior manager out of his job and did not consider him for a new role because its director considered him an underperformer must pay him almost $18,000, the FWC finding it was not a genuine redundancy.
The FWC has slammed a "presumptuous" employer for taking up its time with a baseless late bid to have the tribunal throw out the unfair dismissal claim of a casual boxing trainer seeking compensation at the JobKeeper rate.
The FWC has declined to adjourn an unfair dismissal case despite a former Victoria Police employee's concerns he is constrained after exercising his right to silence in a criminal case largely reliant on the same set of contested facts.
