2017-18 Annual Wage Review Progress Update
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4 Yearly Review of Modern Awards: Unpaid Family & Domestic Violence leave
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CONCLUSION: Casual employee stripped of shifts… resigned
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Extension granted for representative error, this time
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Termination for breach of “zero tolerance” mobile phone policy harsh
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FWC upholds dismissal, rejects alleged union stitch-up during “attack of diarrhoea”
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Are you ready for Single Touch Payroll reporting?
From 1 July 2018, employers with 20 or more employees will be required to comply with Single Touch Payroll reporting.
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Employees with Competing Businesses Not Unfairly Dismissed
Two decisions handed down by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) last week dealt with employees dismissed for operating a business in competition with the employer. Both cases involved small business employers (i.e. employing fewer than 15 employees) and the FWC found in favour of the employer in each case.
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Regulation of the labour hire industry in Queensland
In May 2017, the Queensland Government promised that mandatory licensing of labour hire companies would be introduced in 2018 in a bid to “crack-down on rogue operators who are exploiting and mistreating vulnerable workers”.
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Angry Airline Employee Loses Unfair Dismissal Claim
An airline employee has lost his unfair dismissal claim in the Fair Work Commission after he was found to have made a sarcastic comment to a colleague before blocking the colleague from exiting a locker room, grabbing his shirt and pushing him into a locker. In a separate incident, the airline employee was found to have told the colleague, ‘It’s un-Australian if you don’t take sickies’ and if he didn’t like it he could ‘f… off back to his own country’.
The airline employee had an unblemished employment record but Commissioner Bissett said that was not a ‘free pass’ to an incident of misconduct. The Commissioner also found the employee had shown little remorse for his actions.
https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2018fwc1352.htm
Gigney v Qantas Airways Limited T/A Qantas [2018] FWC 1352
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