The Senate has this evening passed legislation to ease the FWC's surging workload, after the Albanese Government accepted a Greens amendment to close what they say is a loophole in intractable bargaining provisions.
A Federal Court judge has awarded costs against retailer H&M after expressing bemusement at its reasons for seeking to suppress seemingly "anodyne" details of an adverse action case brought by its former Australia/NZ HR leader.
In a significant ruling on applications to work from home, the FWC has agreed with a multinational company's claim that its payroll officer could not devote sufficient attention to "complex" tasks while caring for two children under five.
Bargained private sector annual pay rises increased to 4.1% a year in the March quarter, according to new DEWR data, outpacing headline inflation and the wage price index.
The FWC has refused a labour-supplier's bid to reduce a Tasmanian fitter's redundancy pay to zero, finding that the FIFO role the company offered him in South Australia would involve greater costs and significantly more travel.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a nurse who attempted to start a competitor to an ANMF branch, finding that he called in sick and used the time to campaign, repeatedly complained about his colleagues and HR without foundation, and had been "indiscriminately rude".
A tribunal has rejected an APESMA member's claim that the union refused to represent her after Google sacked her because of an alleged psychiatric disability, ruling that the union did so because she refused to heed its advice to attend an independent medical examination.
The UWU has won a protected action ballot order despite an employer's intention to unilaterally put a proposed deal to a vote, and its insistence that the bargaining parties already agreed to it in-principle.
The House of Representatives has passed legislation to reduce the FWC's workload and introduce procurement arrangements enabling the Albanese Government to prefer suppliers with enterprise agreements, while the Greens have backed a motion to give the Senate just an hour to debate it before a final vote on Monday.
