Employer swore it never fired the driver - Fair Work disagreed
A bus company insisted it never fired its driver. The Fair Work Commission disagreed - and ordered it to pay.
A casual bus driver who lost his shifts after a road accident has won an unfair dismissal claim, in a ruling that should make Australian employers think hard about the line between "no work right now" and "you're dismissed."
In a decision handed down on June 9, 2026, the Fair Work Commission found that North Sydney Bus Charter dismissed Behzad Safari Honyandari - even though the company maintained throughout that it had done no such thing.
Honyandari joined the company in April 2025 to drive charter buses. He was engaged as a casual but settled into a regular shift pattern, largely a school run, and kept it up until December. North Sydney Bus Charter is a large employer: it runs more than 300 drivers, around 80% of them casuals.
On December 4, 2025, his bus collided with another vehicle. When the company learned of the accident, the shifts stopped.
What followed mattered to the outcome. Honyandari kept asking for work. He was on a bridging visa that allowed him to work but barred him from social security, and he was supporting a wife and two children. The decision records that his family relied on charities over Christmas. He phoned the depot, visited in person and even applied for an advertised role. Nothing came.
On December 19 the company handed him a letter explaining that its insurer was reviewing...
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