A senior Commonwealth Bank employee failed to disclose his connection with a mortgage broker, defied the employer's bans on using WeChat and his personal mobile phone to arrange home loans and then paraded "a chaotic collection of lies, nonsense, poorly matched ideas, and manufactured responses" in his doomed unfair dismissal case in the FWC.

The FWC has rejected the United Firefighters Union's claim that its history of disputes with a government employer's IR advisor meant he could not impartially investigate serious misconduct allegations against a member.

The meat union has launched a Federal Court representative-style proceeding on behalf of cleaners at a Steggles poultry processing facility, alleging it engaged them at the lowest award classification to perform tasks such as removing blood and guts from the "kill floor" and boning room, when they should have been paid at a higher grade.

A senior employment and IR law academic has admitted to committing a serious criminal offence.

The CPSU has officially rejected the Albanese Government's pay offer of 9% over three years for federal public servants after members overwhelmingly shunned it in a snap union poll.

A FWC full bench has weighed whether an employer discontinued an application to approve an enterprise agreement to circumvent the Fair Work Act's power to unilaterally rewrite substandard conditions, while it has refused a union's request to extend time to consider the deal, after changes in the underlying award to address gender undervaluation "radically" changed the circumstances.

An employer has withdrawn from a multi-employer supported bargaining authorisation covering a group of Victorian disability service providers after making significant changes to its business model.

A solicitor engaged by a law firm as a “partner” has defeated a jurisdictional objection to her general protections involving dismissal claim, after the FWC found the reality of her working arrangements reflected an employment relationship.

Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth has told a Senate Estimates hearing that the watchdog is yet to refer any criminal underpayments to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, nearly two years after the wage theft offence's introduction.

Employment law barristers Rebecca Davern, Alexander Solomon-Bridge and Hilary Bonney are part of the latest 15-strong crop of SCs announced by the Victorian Bar Association.