Qantas Catering employees are obliged to "work with, buddy and train" labour hire employees to do the same work they perform, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
An employer's bid to lock the CFMEU out of its agreement's coverage due to an "oversight" has led to a full bench overturning previous authorities that would have generated an "irrational" result.
An employer has had its agreement rejected after failing to convince the Fair Work Commission that it made a "trifling" error in its bargaining rights notice when it mistakenly listed the tribunal's website as a source of information rather than the FWO.
The FWC has ordered abattoir operator Teys Australia to backpay thousands of dollars to meatworkers for incentive scheme underpayments during a long period of "confusion" and "uncertainty" about the operation of its enterprise agreement and an associated incentive payment system.
A Coles Supermarkets employee who is seeking to overturn the approval of the retailer's enterprise agreement told a full bench in Melbourne this week that letting the agreement stand would amount to saying, "we've got it wrong, but let us get away with it".
In a crucial ruling for the Ichthys LNG project, an FWC full bench has ruled today that an electrical contracting company is entitled to give its fly-in, fly-out employees notice of retrenchment immediately before a rest and recreation period.
In what is believed to be a first, the AMWU has secured the interim reinstatement of a shop steward because his sacking arguably breached good faith bargaining obligations.
An employer’s decision to change e-tag and toll usage policies for private usage of company cars, taken after an internal review revealed excessive spending on weekends and public holidays, has been upheld by the FWC.
A FWC full bench has rejected an employer's bid to block protected industrial action, confirming that its invalid notice of employee representational rights didn't knock out a union's protected action ballot application.
