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The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has awarded a casual caravan park cleaner more than $5,000 compensation after finding that her summary dismissal, allegedly for stating that she was aware the park manager and another cleaner were having an “affair”, was unjust.

Continue reading “Park Manager pays price following alleged involvement in “compromising incident””

An employer has successfully argued he did not sack a receptionist, despite the two of them engaging in a series of spiteful and “childlike” social media exchanges, with the Fair Work Commission (FWC) finding the employee brought the employment relationship to an end over her “perception” that she had been dismissed.

Continue reading ““Back to the dole que for you” text, childish but not a dismissal: FWC”

A food products supplier which made a meal of dismissing an employee has been forced to fork out $20,500 after the Fair Work Commission found it unfairly dismissed a food technologist. Continue reading “Employer Chipped for Unfair Dismissal”

Doutta Galla Aged Services Ltd has recently lost a case in the Fair Work Commission over the dismissal of an employee on a student Visa. On Friday 2 November the Commission agreed to set a date for a hearing to determine compensation for the Applicant. Continue reading “Unfair dismissal finding for employee accused of breaching Visa”

The Fair Work Commission in Sydney has awarded Ms Natalie Bain a payout of $54,000 for a dismissal which took place in early May. Ms Bain was employed by CPB Contractors Pty Ltd, a construction company which works in the rail, tunnelling, and building sectors. Her dismissal arose because of an incident on 21 April 2018. Continue reading “Big payout for unfairly dismissed employee”

The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has released its Annual Report 2017-18 and the data on enterprise agreement approvals makes for grim reading. Continue reading “Huge Delays in Enterprise Agreement Approvals – Undertakings Double”