The FWC has rejected a "things are different on a mining site" defence from a Fortescue Metals Group worker dismissed for holding a piece of broken glass to the throat of a colleague.
A national survey by the Human Rights Commission has found that a third of older job hunters abandoned their efforts after they experienced age discrimination.
GM Holden is encouraging workers at its Elizabeth assembly plant in Adelaide to register their interest in taking an uncapped redundancy payout of 3.5 weeks pay for each year of service as it seeks to cut up to 270 jobs by the end of next month.
A senior FWC member has found that "extraordinary" circumstances justified the tribunal accepting a sacked employee's late unfair dismissal claim, while urging the employer to settle to avoid "further criticism and embarrassment for its conduct" and panning its law firm's role in the case.
A modern award is set to be stripped of a discriminatory clause that has prevented 13 older employees accessing between 40 and 60 weeks redundancy pay over the past 18 months.
Australia could consider adopting a Kiwi-style statutory good faith obligation after the High Court's finding that there is no implied duty of mutual trust and confidence in employment contracts, according to a senior law academic.
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed the unfair dismissal claims of two highly-paid managers because their allowances elevated their remuneration beyond the high income threshold.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has rejected Glencore Xstrata's challenge to orders requiring the company to provide the tribunal with documents relating to its staffing decisions last year at its Collinsville open cut coal mine.
A company that dismissed a rigger for working unsafely at height and then allegedly ignoring a supervisor’s instruction to work differently has been ordered to pay him $9000 compensation, after failing to prove he received sufficiently clear directions.
The Fair Work Commission has granted a Coles store manager an extension of time to file his unfair dismissal claim after finding that he was misled into believing that the supermarket giant was investigating the termination of his employment.
