A FWC full bench has rejected a solicitor's challenge to a $36,000 costs order and will report him to the NSW Law Society over his misconduct in accusing another tribunal member of being a "Nazi" and taking bribes.
The FWC has found that a HR manager who quit after her employer changed her responsibilities was not forced to resign, noting that although she had to report to a different manager, "a change in a reporting line does not constitute constructive dismissal".
A judge has been forced to pick apart a full court's remittal order before determining that he must rehear a worker's adverse action case afresh rather than merely considering "updated" evidence.
The FWC has declared after eight unfair dismissal applications and 24 matters in total over two years that it will no longer entertain a persistent worker's quest for satisfaction through the tribunal.
A senior Virgin flight attendant has had her reinstatement overturned after a FWC full bench comprehensively picked apart a finding that procedural fairness deficiencies rendered her sacking for misconduct unfair.
A senior FWC member must reconsider an employer's jurisdictional objections to an unfair dismissal application in the correct sequence after a full bench found she leapfrogged several steps the first time around.
In a significant ruling on supposed 'cancel culture', a court has found a leading sandstone university and its former deputy vice chancellor breached an agreement's intellectual freedom clause when the institution sacked a lecturer for superimposing a swastika on a posted image of an Israeli flag.
A worker who claims FWC President Iain Ross admitted to having a problem with commissioners' "colonial attitude" has lost his Federal Court bid to sue the tribunal for racial discrimination.
The CFMMEU's mining division has asked the FWC to intervene after almost two years of fruitless bargaining for enterprise agreements covering internal labour hire companies run by BHP's Operations Services.