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An HSE rep who was sacked after making numerous complaints about safety and managers, following a spate of workplace fatalities, has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected.

Convicted Qld employer's Kirk bid blocked again; and Sacked safety manager earned too much to claim unfair dismissal.

A worker who was seriously injured after positioning himself in a "pinch point zone" was fairly dismissed for safety breaches, Fair Work Australia has found.

A Western Australian employer failed to comply with a Code of Practice on workplace violence and bullying when investigating complaints made against a supervisor, and then unfairly dismissed the woman, the State IRC has found.

A RailCorp manager who won about $100,000 at Australian and overseas poker tournaments while on sick leave was rightly sacked, a tribunal has found in dismissing, as "problematic", his claim that the "adrenalin" of poker improved his psychological health.

An employer whose two directors impulsively dismissed a manager for taking sick leave has been ordered to pay more than $115,000 in fines, compensation and costs.

Ai Group to appeal FWA's workers' comp/service ruling; OHS fine nearly doubled to $230k on appeal; and Extreme care urged following two excavator fatalities.

Ambulance Victoria's claim that it would not be in the public interest to reinstate an ambulance driver, who became dependent on methadone after a work injury, has been rejected by a Fair Work Australia full bench.

An employee who worked for less than three months for an on-hire agency before spending more than a year on workers'-comp leave is protected by unfair dismissal laws, Fair Work Australia has found. Also in this article, FWA has ruled that bad language and agitated behaviour are grounds for dismissing a flight attendant - but not a construction worker.

Employers must tread very carefully when deciding whether to dismiss permanently injured workers, even when "armed with volumes of supporting medical evidence", lawyers warn.