The FWC is seeking feedback on a provisional view that it should correct a "clearly nonsensical" proposition in the Hydrocarbons Award that overpayments can only be deducted from workers' wages if they are stood down due to a storm or cyclone.
Reserve Bank staff have narrowly voted down a unilateral offer after the FSU warned that a proposed 9.5% pay rise over three years would prompt a "brain drain" to more lucrative public and private sector roles.
Tomorrow's eight-hour strike by BHP's WA port workers will go ahead, after the miner and unions yesterday failed to resolve their differences during a lengthy FWC-facilitated bargaining meeting.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a public sector worker who claimed without medical proof that his ADHD explained his constant failure to turn up to work or complete tasks.
The FWC has ordered FedEx to reinstate a driver who sustained burns on his leg when he dropped a box containing sulphuric acid, after viewing footage showing "regular" safety breaches at its Wollongong depot.
The FWC has "adjusted the types of cases" allocated to Commissioner Sophie Panopoulos "having regard to her personal circumstances" after her legal representative appeared for her in a Victorian court yesterday.
A FWC full bench has refused BHP permission to challenge a majority support determination that clears the way for the Collieries Staff and Officials Association to negotiate for the first time a deal covering supervisors and coordinators at the Hay Point Coal Terminal.
The FWC will tomorrow hear BHP's bid to break a bargaining deadlock at its crucial Port Hedland operations, ahead of unions staging an eight-hour strike on Thursday the miner claims could cost it more than $100 million. Update: This article has been updated to reflect the FWC bringing forward the conference to tomorrow.
A tribunal has rejected a chief executive's reasons for repeatedly delaying a s-xual harassment and discrimination case against him, finding his actions supported a finding that he engaged in "predatory and grooming" conduct towards a female employee 40 years his junior.
A senior FWC member has affirmed that the statutory focus when considering whether "exceptional" circumstances exist to justify more notice for strikes is not on an employer's operations but on the proposed industrial action itself, rejecting Sydney's driverless train network's plea for extra warning.
