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The Annual Wage Review 2018-19 is underway to determine what increase, if any, should be applied to minimum wages in 2019. As usual, the submissions to the Fair Work Commission from unions and employers vary widely. Some notable submissions this year include:

A Full Bench of the FWC has upheld an appeal against the decision of Commissioner Hunt in relation to the dismissal of an employee who refused to provide his biometric data at work.  The Full Bench upheld the following grounds of appeal advanced by the applicant in the matter, Mr Lee:

Continue reading “Update: Employee Who Said No to Biometric Scanners Was Unfairly Dismissed”

An experienced Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner has lost his unfair dismissal claim in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) after a dispute with a colleague in the workplace led to his sacking.

Continue reading “Dispute Resolution Practitioner Dismissed for Dispute”

A Real Estate Agency that failed to turn up to an unfair dismissal hearing has been found by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to have unfairly dismissed its Property Manager.

The FWC hearing was due to proceed in Bathurst on 11 April when the employer failed to appear.  The FWC managed to contact the employer by phone and warned him the hearing might start without him if he did not attend.  He replied, ‘Do what you have to do, I’m not coming’.  The hearing did proceed, and the FWC ultimately found in favour of the worker.

Continue reading “Real Estate Employer Dismissed Worker ‘Dishonestly’: FWC”

An ICT employee has lost a battle over his dismissal in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) after his employer ended his employment for serious misconduct.

Continue reading “Drugs and Porn – worker fights claim of serious misconduct”