A tribunal has upheld the suspension without pay of a nurse accused of s-xually assaulting a co-worker in their shared employer-provided accommodation, despite his claims it would be unfair when the allegations are "utterly untested".
In an indication that the Qantas group didn't abandon its hardline IR approach with the departure of Alan Joyce, its low-cost subsidiary is threatening to put a unilateral deal to its ASU-covered customer service workforce as it votes on industrial action to coincide with school holidays and the AFL and NRL finals series.
The FWC has refused permission for an aviation company and a former manager to be represented by lawyers and an unpaid layperson after they volleyed complaints about each other and offered-up "irrelevant material".
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has started an investigation into whether John Setka, the former Victorian branch secretary of the under-administration CFMEU construction and general division, has flouted stringent "anti-avoidance" provisions that might lead to imprisonment by making threats against those now running the union.
An accounting firm that knowingly misled a Fair Work Inspector investigating its exploitative cashback scheme has been ordered to pay total penalties of $177,000 by the Federal Circuit and Family Court.
The Federal Court has pushed FWC general manager Murray Furlong's prosecution of Diana Asmar back to next month and asked to her to provide a neurologist's report to ascertain whether she "is capable of managing her own affairs in the proceeding".
The FWC has taken on board a FIFO Shell worker's failure to attend physiotherapy appointments after breaking his back, in dismissing a dispute over the flexible work job-share bids he and a colleague lodged to ease their way into retirement.
The nursing union's NSW branch is facing its first contested election in 23 years, with a rank-and-file member and former organiser launching the "Time for Handover" ticket and going up against an incumbent team.
A meat union delegate who has had hundreds of thousands of dollars in employer penalties paid into his union's coffers has added almost $90,000 more to his tally, this time from Woolworths.
The FWC has declined to get involved in the potential sacking of a law professor accused of kissing a student on an "immersion" trip to Paris, despite finding flaws in the disciplinary process.
