An unregistered union representing Sydney Airport workers has filed a majority support determination application to bring a contractor to the bargaining table, while negotiations are also underway with two other Kingsford Smith employers.
The income and compensation caps for unfair dismissal claims are set to increase next Wednesday, along with filing fees for a range of other applications, while payday super will also take effect.
Diversity Council Australia has attributed a 10% membership fall in part to "negative global sentiment" about its guiding ethos, leading to its first financial deficit in more than a decade.
An unfairly sacked concreter has been denied reinstatement or compensation, after the FWC accepted that his threats of violence scared his colleagues and their spouses.
Unions have failed to convince FWC President Adam Hatcher that last year's legislation "protecting" penalty rates and overtime is "fatal" to employer cases seeking to vary the clerks and banking awards, with the joined matters referred to a full bench.
West Australian unions are calling for the Federal Government to urgently fund infrastructure to support "industry attraction programs" in the south-western town of Collie, as coal mine and power station closures loom, and workers risk losing their jobs before new industries are established.
The FWC has backed Amazon's sacking of an injured worker who refused to have an independent medical examination, while another employer's income protection policy has weighed in favour of finding it not unfair to dismiss an incapacitated diesel fitter.
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The FWC will refer discount retailer Panda Mart to the FWO after hearing it retained the passport of an unfairly sacked worker who won compensation while facing a HR representative's claims that she might have engaged in visa impropriety.
A FWC full bench has taken the extraordinary step of quashing a five-year-old decision that left thousands of BP employees uncovered by an enterprise agreement while the company remained unaware it had been terminated.
