The Federal Court has refused to treat court documents sent to an employer's former lawyers as effective service after the employer moved to the United Kingdom, but has allowed the worker involved to send the documents via WhatsApp.

The SDA has welcomed a 68% "yes" vote for a Bunnings agreement, but will ask the FWC to address some alleged deficiencies via undertakings, while RAFFWU is celebrating what it says is the largest ever "no" vote in the hardware giant's bargaining history.

Queensland's IRC has directed a government agency to freshly review an intelligence analyst's employment status after it gave insufficient reasons for rejecting his request for permanent appointment to a higher-level position he acted in.

A FWC full bench has quashed a certificate sending a general protections case involving dismissal to court after a member failed to determine an employer's objection that a worker quit, before recent Fair Work Act amendments removed the requirement.

The High Court's refusal to hear an appeal against the Giggle for Girls v Tickle ruling means employers cannot exclude transgender women when they seek to hire women to address historic under-representation in the workforce, a human rights law expert says.

Western Australia's Cook Government is seeking to repeal and replace the state's 40-year-old equal opportunity regime, introducing a positive duty to eliminate unlawful conduct, obligations to make reasonable adjustments and protections against discrimination on the grounds of 23 attributes.

RTBU Victorian branch secretary Vik Sharma says the State union will come together "for the first time" as a united team after his supporters resoundingly defeated the incumbent tram and bus divisional leadership in a recent ballot.

In a rare case of an employer challenging a union's "no" vote campaign materials, the FWC has ruled that the UWU had been entitled to present a two-tier wage system as a threat to existing workers, but misrepresented agreed leave entitlements.

The FWC has declined to delay a vote on an SDA-endorsed deal at a Coles automated distribution centre, despite finding the supermarket giant breached good faith bargaining obligations by not providing the draft agreement to another union.

The FWC has taken into account the financial pain of missed mortgage repayments and the disruption of being forced to take a drive-in, drive-out role in deciding to reinstate a mineworker who raised a fist towards a colleague after being "triggered" when called a "c—t".