The Federal Court has refused to suspend penalties against 50 workers who walked out to protest a colleague's sacking, fining each individual up to $1,500 for their unlawful industrial action at ExxonMobil's Longford gas conditioning plant last year.
The FWC has found a roof tiler is an employee who can make an unfair dismissal claim, ruling his employer created an independent contracting "façade" to suit its own purposes and avoid paying his entitlements.
The Human Rights Commission has recommended an employer update anti-bias policies that provided insufficient guidance on how to avoid discriminating against an employee with a prior conviction for selling drugs.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a "competent and conscientious" communications advisor with an extensive media background, accepting he could not be redeployed because his resistance to social media made him unsuited to the new role's demands.
The FWC has found Qantas should have implemented a penalty "lesser than dismissal" for a long-serving flight attendant who stole alcohol from a flight then lied about it, but has rejected reinstating him because it might "condone" theft.
The Australian Baseball League did not take adverse action against a team's general manager when it opted not to renew his contract, a court has found.
A software business manager must pay almost $10,000 in fines and $200,000 in costs for his copyright infringement and "flagrant" breaches of his employment contract when he copied his employer's confidential files and worked for a competitor during his gardening leave.
An FWC member ventured beyond the tribunal's private arbitration powers when he ruled on a dispute over the sacking of a probationary employee, a full bench has found.
The FWC has found a delivery driver fingered by a colleague as being involved in a theft ring was unfairly dismissed because his sacking coincided with his complaints about entitlements and workers' health and safety.