The FWC has rejected a highly-paid commercial leasing director's unfair dismissal claim, finding that while many of his duties aligned with a real estate award classification, his duties and responsibilities pushed him outside its scope.
A former people and culture GM has lost his novel interim reinstatement bid after alleging his employer victimised him for raising a series of s-x discrimination issues, accusing him of not being "a good cultural fit" and telling him the company does not need to do things "by the book".
After its CFMEU raid today, Victoria Police has revealed that its investigation relates to drug trafficking in addition to the "secret commissions" or "kickbacks", and has charged two of the five men it arrested.
The ACTU has stopped conducting a survey of union officials on their inflation expectations that it previously provided to the RBA, because of its influence on the central bank's interest rates decisions, but says it is committed to developing a better methodology.
A FWC-commissioned survey shows that 40% of applicants are using AI to prepare and manage their cases, as the tribunal's president revealed he will mandate disclosure of the technology from October 20 for "individual rights matters".
An executive on a major Victorian Government infrastructure project who accepted a large severance package could not "seriously" contend he departed reluctantly when he elected to pocket a $50,000 payment instead of taking part in a further redeployment process, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has refused to overturn the dismissal of a veteran AFL umpire who frog-marched a trespassing jogger from a training session, in a significant decision "reconciling" the tribunal's different approaches to whether employers have valid reasons to sack workers variously involved in physical altercations and policy breaches.
