Ombudsman: Small businesses should be allowed to pay out staff who don’t “fit”
Australia's Small Business Ombudsman is pushing for changes to industrial relations laws to benefit small businesses.
A personal assistant has lost her unfair dismissal bid after her boss fired her for covering for the absences of another staff member, who a…
Social media policies can be a minefield for businesses, but the goal posts are shifting for how the Fair Work Commission deals with workers…
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that ports business Hutchison was within its right to fire a worker who shared a pornographic video via a…
A construction worker has been unsuccessful in his claim of unfair dismissal, after a Western Australian business fired him for his involvem…
The Fair Work Commission has ruled a worker who brought an unfair dismissal case against his employer cannot appeal the original decision, w…
More than 90% of unfair dismissal claims over the past year were resolved before they reached a hearing involving a Fair Work Commissioner, …
A Zambrero franchisee has been ordered to pay a former worker $2000 in compensation after he fired her on the spot when she and her mother w…
The Fair Work Commission has found an RACV resort was correct to dismiss an employee on suspicions she intended to steal a hat from the reso…
A window and doors installation business that was found to have unfairly dismissed a worker for failing to show up on a job site says it doe…
A Darwin business that stopped offering an employee shifts after he called a co-worker a “racist bitch” says the Fair Work Commission decisi…
