A job that required four hours a day of travel did not amount to acceptable alternative employment for a redundant worker who had toiled almost entirely from home, the FWC has ruled.
Emma Kingdon, a former ACTU national campaigns director and CFMEU Administration executive officer, is set to replace Michele O'Neil as president of the ACTU.
The Federal Court has declined to temporarily restrain Atlassian from managing a neurodivergent worker's performance or sacking him, after finding no "real threat" of imminent termination of his employment.
The FWC has refused to make an intractable bargaining declaration sought by offshore service provider DOF Australia, finding that industrial action might shift negotiations, while the Offshore Alliance's "significant concession" on its wages claim indicates it is willing to reach agreement.
Acciona has failed to persuade the FWC that a delay between a petition and a MSD decision undermines evidence of majority support, with a senior member warning it would create a "farcical scenario" if unions must constantly revisit members' views.
Greens Senator Steele-John says he's not on leave in the wake of investigation into his conduct; International just transition network established; and WHS review seeks further NDA curbs.
In a significant decision about employers' redundancy obligations, the FWC has rejected MUA arguments that a marine service company could have "cobbled together" a new role out of various casual jobs to create a full-time position for a deckhand laid off after it lost a contract.
The working from home term in the clerical award will take effect next Monday, after a FWC full bench today confirmed its August ruling, with minor amendments to phrasing of the proposed new rights.
The High Court has refused special leave for a whistleblower to challenge his sacking, effectively upholding lower court rulings that his role had been genuinely made redundant.
The FWC has ruled that while a BHP subsidiary "imposed unreasonable deadlines" for a worker with bipolar to respond to and provide medical reports, it was entitled to dismiss him for incapacity after he refused to attend a "tie-breaker" medical exam to resolve conflicting assessments of his fitness for work.
