Queensland's peak union body has accused the Crisafulli Government of "blind ideology" over a proposed building and construction code it claims impinges on Federal laws and regulates workplace relations through procurement, calling on Canberra to intervene.
A FWC full bench has affirmed that small businesses have the same obligations as large employers when consulting over redundancies, throwing out a tile importer's appeal against orders to pay more than $30,000 to a former sales representative.
The FWC has rejected a manager's general protections dismissal dispute claim after finding that she waited too long to withdraw a resignation supposedly given "in a state of distress" and holding that the employer's knowledge of her tendency "to make 'emotional' decisions" had no relevance.
A council's desire to have a senior planning team member pass on his wisdom in-person provided reasonable business grounds to refuse his request to work at home for all but six days a month, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has rejected an employer's application to axe an expired agreement because of a lack of evidence to support its claim that it made it run at a loss, and after it emerged that it sought the termination to end proceedings the CFMEU brought under the deal's dispute provisions.
AWU production operators have voted today to authorise industrial action, which will clear the way for port-wide strikes at BHP's Port Hedland operations, ahead of the next bargaining meeting tomorrow.
In a significant ruling on parliamentary privilege, a full Federal Court has found that Hansard extracts should not have been used to support a bias claim against a Labor politician-turned-FWC-member weighing same-job, same-pay orders.
