Airservices Australia was entitled to dismiss a firefighter keeping watch at a major airport's fire control centre for continuing to film a simulation of himself making music on an electronic device as an alarm sounded, the FWC has found.
The FWC has awarded $6,000 compensation to a travelling salesperson who was unfairly dismissed for making a "crude" and "immature" Facebook post suggesting a woman provided s-xual favours to her boss to win a promotion.
The FWC has issued an interim order to restrain an employer from disciplining an executive for alleged misconduct until the tribunal determines her anti-bullying application.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an accounts manager for cosmetics giant Coty for making disparaging comments about clients in an email she accidentally sent to them.
The FWC has highlighted that an employee with no legal qualifications or background in IR who won an extension of time for her unfair dismissal claim "provided the sole information" to the tribunal about representative error, despite the presence of her advocate at a hearing.
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 has ruled that logistics company Qube was justified in sacking a veteran wharfie who lied about damaging property and described the company's chair, waterfront warrior Chris Corrigan, as a "pig" on Facebook.
A Federal Court cross-claim by former Seven West Media executive assistant Amber Harrison alleges complaints she made in 2014 to two HR managers and her ex-lover, chief executive Tim Worner, prompted the company to take adverse action by launching an investigation into her credit card use.
Gagged former Seven West Media executive assistant Amber Harrison today raised the stakes significantly in the wake of her affair with CEO Tim Worner when high-profile barrister Julian Burnside QC appeared on her behalf to argue that a cross claim alleging the network failed to provide her with a safe working environment should be heard in the Federal Court.
The NUW has today asked its former NSW leader Derrick Belan about evidence he gave to the Heydon Royal Commission, as it defends his brother Nick's unfair dismissal claim in the FWC.
