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A commission has upheld the dismissal of a forklift operator deemed medically unfit to perform the inherent requirements of his role following multiple surgeries. It rejected the man's claim his employer provided false information for a medical assessment conducted under its WHS management system.

A paramedic who claimed she was unable to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate because of her "flu-like symptoms" has been blocked from pursuing her late unfair dismissal claim, with a Fair Work Commission full bench finding her illness was not a valid reason for her late application or her vaccine non-compliance.

A long-serving pilot who was sacked for not complying with his airline's COVID-19 vaccination policy has had his unfair dismissal claim upheld by a commission, which identified substantial procedural unfairness against the worker.

A Fair Work Commission full bench has upheld an appeal by a worker who claimed his employer took unlawful adverse action against him by sacking him because he followed COVID-19 isolation orders.

The Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of a long-time Australia Post employee who breached mask rules and ignored multiple reasonable directions not to return to a client's workplace, after complaints he was spreading COVID-19 conspiracy theories.

A WHS specialist sacked while on paid personal leave has had her unfair dismissal case thrown out by the Fair Work Commission, which rejected her claim that WHS laws blocked her from sending documents from her laptop to her employer in the absence of a return-to-work plan.

A Federal judge has ordered an employer to pay a worker at least $162,000 in compensation, after hearing the man used a t-shirt as a face mask when he joined the company, and finding it took unlawful adverse action against him after he was diagnosed with silicosis.

Under WHS laws, no risk assessment was necessary and workers were not required to be consulted prior to the implementation of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a commission has found in a decision directly affecting 24 sacked workers.

An unvaccinated risk and compliance manager who failed to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate has had her unfair dismissal case rejected for the second time, with a Fair Work Commission full bench dismissing her claims around privacy laws and remote arrangements.

A deputy operations manager, with the NSW Ambulance Service, created a "psychologically unsafe workplace" by inappropriately venting his frustrations over colleagues to his manager, a commission has ruled in rejecting his unfair dismissal appeal.