In the FWO's first underpayment prosecution relying on race discrimination prohibitions in the Fair Work Act, a court has found a Tasmanian hotel and its manager deliberately short-changed a head chef and kitchen hand and expected them to work long hours, six days a week because of their Malaysian nationality and Chinese race.
The Federal Circuit Court has rejected a highly-paid employee's claim that a media business engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when it told her that if she won a role with the company it would be "long term".
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has admitted it took adverse action by docking the personal leave of a director it placed on indefinite leave following a long absence for cancer treatment and surgery, but says it reversed it before her general protections proceedings started.
The Federal Court has found the CFMEU knowingly concerned in a WA official's adverse action and coercion when he last year told Gorgon LNG project workers he would put non-members' names on toilet doors "to let everyone know who you f-cking dog c-nts are".
A court has reserved judgment on an obese security officer's adverse action claim in which he accuses his employer of transferring him to a position he physically could not perform in another city and then sacking him to stop him after he challenged a proposed enterprise agreement.
The High Court has reserved judgment after this week hearing regional airline Rex's challenge to a union's entitlement to represent the industrial interests of eligible non-members as it pursues an adverse action claim on behalf of cadet pilots and prospective employees.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has agreed to enter into mediation with an employee who accuses it of taking adverse action by suspending and demoting her and directing her to take indefinite leave following a long absence for cancer treatment and surgery.
A court has found that a rail freight company took adverse action against a train driver when it derailed his progress towards a more lucrative role after he refused to alter a shift, citing primary carer responsibilities and fatigue.
A warehouse team leader must match wits with Woolworths' in-house HR/IR managers over his unfair dismissal claim after the FWC refused to allow either party legal representation for what it determined was a matter "not complex enough" to involve lawyers or paid agents.
A Tiger Airways employee who claims he was sacked partly because of his age and his response to threats from the airline's chief pilot has won an extension of time to lodge a general protections claim because his legal representative wrongly made an unfair dismissal application.
