Protected industrial action by Royal Flying Doctor Service nurses has been put on hold after the ballot agent named the wrong union on the voting report.
A worker with inflammatory bowel disease has lost his bid to use the Secure Jobs Act flexible work provisions to resist a request to return to the office 40% of the time, the FWC finding it will boost his employer's ability to lift his productivity and allow others to benefit from his experience.
A security company has been ordered to pay $80,000 to a former employee assaulted by current All-Australian AFL captain Toby Greene nearly a decade ago, a court finding that he could have claimed insurance for "permanent disablement" but for the employer failing to pay his superannuation on time.
WA's St John Ambulance has failed to convince the FWC that its agreement requires paramedics who are not the primary carer of a child to clock up a full year of employment before they can access eight days paid leave after a birth or adoption.
An employer is facing a potential adverse action claim after the FWC held that its general manager's out-of-hours spamming of an injured delivery driver ended the employment relationship even if the company's director did not want him dismissed.
A judge has declined to bundle together an employer's various workplace breaches in ordering it to pay $163,000 in fines to a former worker for stripping his severance pay of more than 500 accumulated annual leave hours.
In the first FWC full bench consideration of Secure Jobs Act flexible work dispute provisions, a worker's application has fallen at the first hurdle because she failed to provide her employer with written reasons and offered "unsatisfactory" evidence about her alleged disability.
A FIFO chemist on a Santos-operated vessel who resigned after seeking an "appropriate safe job" while pregnant and challenging instructions to hasten her return from parental leave has established that her employer's cumulative conduct forced her hand.
In a full bench decision exploring what constitutes work-related conduct, essential services provider Ventia has failed to knock out the reinstatement of a firefighter who shared an Only Fans video and a meme showing three naked women in a "sickos" Facebook group of current and former colleagues.
A victim of "appalling" domestic violence did not need to provide independent medical advice to explain why she filed an unfair dismissal application almost four months late, the FWC has found.