The FWC has upheld a coal mining company's right to stop accrual of annual leave for employees when they take industrial action or are locked out, in a decision with potential implications for the wider industry.
The first test case for the delegates' rights provisions legislated by the Albanese Government is set to be heard in the Federal Court in Brisbane next week.
In another FWC case blighted by AI, a senior member has lamented the time wasted by tribunal staff and an employer as a result of a self-represented worker's citing of three supposedly pertinent decisions, two of them irrelevant and one that "simply did not exist".
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.
A FWC full bench has affirmed that small businesses have the same obligations as large employers when consulting over redundancies, throwing out a tile importer's appeal against orders to pay more than $30,000 to a former sales representative.
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.
In the first fully contested Federal Court case to consider new s-xual harassment protections in the Fair Work Act, a judge has relied heavily on a FIFO apprentice's dinnertime revelation to her parents that her supervisor asked her for a "bl-w job" to find he s-xually harassed her.
The ASU will today seek a 35% work value pay rise for 300,000 SCHADS award-covered community and disability workers, following a two-year pause after the FWC refused to integrate it within the tribunal's broader gender-based undervaluation case.
Most disability, home care, social and community services workers will from October next year be covered by a "vastly different" award providing pay rises of up to 27%, following yesterday's decision by a FWC expert panel considering gender undervaluation in highly-feminised sectors.
