The FWC has ruled that a Civmec electrical engineer who rejected an alternative role has no entitlement to a redundancy payment, finding the employer adequately explained its offer despite its "clumsy and at times misguided" approach.
In the wake of the ABC's unlawful sacking of journalist Antoinette Lattouf, union members at the national broadcaster are demanding that a new enterprise agreement enshrine workers' rights to report on subjects regardless of their political opinions or cultural backgrounds.
The FWC has approved a CFMEU-brokered enterprise agreement despite finding the union had no eligibility to represent the industrial interests of workers covered by the deal and no authority to negotiate it.
In a default judgment, a federal court has ordered the UAE consulate to pay an Australian worker almost $205,000 in penalties, compensation, interest and costs for s-x discrimination and adverse action, after her employer forced her to br-astfeed in a storeroom, store her milk in a suitcase filled with ice, and denied her unpaid parental leave, before dismissing her.
UWU national president Jo Schofield has launched her own election campaign, after secretary Tim Kennedy threw his support behind a rank and file member for president.
The FWC has refused to stay a senior member's proposal to unilaterally alter an education and care provider's agreement to boost the pay of service leaders, rejecting the employer's claim that it will cause confusion and resentment if its appeal later succeeds.
The FWC has upheld the Victorian WorkCover Authority’s dismissal of a health and safety inspector suffering from complex PTSD because he could not perform the inherent requirements of his role.
A former NSW Transport worker "red flagged" as unsuitable for re-employment must pay $68,000 in legal costs, after a tribunal found he vexatiously pursued a victimisation case to annoy or embarrass the State's Transport Secretary.
RAFFWU is accusing Berkelouw and Harry Hartog bookstores in a Federal Court case of taking unlawful retaliatory adverse action against its members after they took protected industrial action while bargaining to replace a long-expired deal.
There is no evidence to support the RBA's view that an overheated labour market is driving up the cost of living, as wages remain suppressed by COVID-19-driven inflation, according to labour economist Jim Stanford.
