The FWC has ordered an employer to allow a mother with two young children – one with special needs – to mostly work from her outer suburban home, rebuffing its call for her to attend its Sydney CBD office two days a week.
One of the CFMEU's most controversial officials has had his state entry permit revoked, after an IR tribunal full bench used new laws to revisit his lengthy criminal history and consider threats last year to "rip out the heart" of a sub-contractor's representative.
After thwarting a HSU branch merger, VAHPA rank and file members are running a ticket in the first contested election in 14 years, but the incumbents say they look forward to putting their "record, vision, and leadership before the membership once again".
In a revealing decision about the atmosphere at some FWC conciliation conferences, a tribunal member has declined to recuse himself from further hearing a matter despite accepting that a teenage worker and her father "may have taken umbrage" at his tone when expressing frustration at their propensity to stray off-topic.
An academic will tell a major conference that employers must create safe environments for workers to speak out and report harassment and bullying, with recent victimisation findings and rising 'hostile environment' complaints putting positive duty obligations in the spotlight.
The FWC has castigated a union delegate for abusing its anti-bullying processes to "settle personal scores" with managers, branding it "completely inappropriate".
The AWU and ETU will kick off two weeks of strike action at Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex's onshore and offshore facilities, after they failed to reach agreement in FWC-facilitated talks.
The FWC has varied a NSWNMA staff deal after the majority voted to accept pay rises "not reliant" on record increases recently awarded to the State's nurses, with the tribunal also refusing an anonymous objector's bid for a public hearing.
New ACTU pitch for vehicle allowances; Delayed CPI move for expense-related allowances; Further reporting extension for WFH inquiry; and Labour law conference seeking papers.
A contentious random drug and alcohol testing regime can go ahead at Opal Packaging after a full Federal Court found both employer and union erred and in turn led the primary judge astray by focusing on who benefited from a requirement that the "status quo remain" in their dispute resolution procedure, while ignoring the rest of the clause.
