The FWC has upheld Westpac's sacking of a veteran loan manager found to have accepted payments from customers and misused WhatsApp, with the tribunal rejecting his claims that it carried out a sham investigation in retaliation for his "whistleblowing".
In a decision shining a light on real-world tensions in applying workplace safety policies, the FWC has reinstated a 67-year-old bottle shop attendant sacked after she feigned closing a roller door to spur a "swarm" of thieves to leave the store.
A court has affirmed that a law firm could treat an employee's silence as acceptance to being "furloughed" without pay during the coronavirus pandemic, rejecting his second-round bid to recoup about $50,000 via a small claims application.
In a decision the AWU says will ripple across the construction industry and result in backpay for thousands of workers, the FWC has held that Downer EDI must pay superannuation on portable long service leave.
A FWC full bench has quashed a decision that treated a swimming coach's dismissal as a redundancy after he refused a 40% pay cut to accommodate its "financial difficulties".
The AEU says the State's public school teachers, principals and support workers will walk out for 24 hours on August 19 if the Carroll Government fails to put forward an "acceptable" revised bargaining offer.
As Victoria's education minister Ben Carroll takes the helm as State Premier, he is facing a potentially unauthorised teachers strike and calls from the AEU to provide a revised pay offer, as the union's branch council meets to consider its next steps.
The FWC has upheld a coal mining company's right to stop accrual of annual leave for employees when they take industrial action or are locked out, in a decision with potential implications for the wider industry.
A toddler who lost his hair after his liberal mother allowed him to exercise his choice to follow a diet of nothing but Weet-Bix has become the latest addition to the NSW IRC's judicial ranks.
Hundreds of BHP workers at Australia's biggest iron export port are set to escalate their industrial action campaign, after union members at mass meetings last night voted for a 24-hour ban on ship loading, followed by a 24-hour strike, while sparkies running the company's crucial power network serving its mines will also go out.
