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The Fair Work Commission has found that it doesn't have the power to deal with a workplace drug dispute because the aggrieved worker hasn't made a "genuine attempt" to resolve the issue with his employer.

A worker who claimed breaking a tooth on an apple made him lose focus while driving a dump truck, and flatten a bund without realising it, was fairly sacked for not reporting the incident, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.

Employees don't have the right to disobey lawful instructions from supervisors or refuse to carry out their duties just because they think they are unreasonable, the Fair Work Commission has ruled in refusing a worker stop-bullying orders.

Nineteen workers have been fined $1000 each for unlawfully walking off a construction project after a meeting with union officials on alleged bullying and intimidation at the site.

A commission has found that one of a worker's breaches of a "life saving rule" wasn't a valid reason for his dismissal because of the "vagueness" surrounding a height-safety policy.

A worker who acted in an "unnecessarily aggressive manner" after a drunk hotel patron bumped him at a work function, has been denied permission to pursue his unfair dismissal case.

A commission has upheld a final warning issued to a worker for refusing to undertake a third drug test, after he provided an "extremely hot" first urine sample, and provided the second sample without making any noise.

A major employer has been ordered to return an injured worker to his pre-injury role, after the Fair Work Commission found the asserted inherent requirements of the role weren't essential features of his duties.

A company director and one of his employees were denied access to a building site for failing to provide a safe work method statement, and not because they refused to pay their union dues as claimed by the ABCC, the Federal Court has found.

A worker committed a serious safety breach in failing to ensure another worker's exclusion-zone breach was reported to management, a commission has found.