FWC President Adam Hatcher has asked parties to the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case to consider participating in an ASU-proposed conference to resolve outstanding issues, saying that if it proceeds, he will give any consensus deal arising from it "significant weight".
The ASU will forge ahead with nationwide protests tomorrow despite the Australian Industry Group's accusations that it is engaging in unlawful retaliation and intimidation, ahead of a hearing of the SCHADS award gender undervaluation case on Monday.
The FSU says employers are now on notice that they must have genuine business grounds for refusing flexible work arrangements, after the FWC made orders to enable a Westpac employee to work from home to care for her children, finding "no question" her role can be "performed completely remotely".
The FWC has approved the SDA's plan to add three women-only roles to its national executive, to guarantee 25% of the majority-female union's national executive are women, up from the current 11%.
A nurse and one-time member of the ANMF Victorian branch council has this week learned his quest to topple the union's incumbent leadership fell flat, had his bid to establish a rival union knocked out, and failed to convince a FWC member to recuse herself from dealing with his bullying claim.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
Ahead of a 17-day full bench hearing of the shop union's junior rates case from October 20, the FWC has published summaries of the "substantial" evidence, which show that the AiG is arguing that lower rates create an incentive to employ young people, and RAFFWU characterising junior wages as a form of "child labour exploitation".
An appeal tribunal has overturned a ruling in which it found the the ACT Government directly discriminated against an employee based on her irrelevant criminal record when it unilaterally placed her on paid leave and refused to extend her contract, and awarded her $265,000 in damages.
"Serious" flaws in an employer's s-xual harassment investigation, in tandem with its expectation the worker would continue working alongside her alleged harasser, forced her to resign, the FWC has found.
A commissioner who holds 200 Woolworths shares has refused to recuse herself from an anti-bullying case involving the supermarket giant, because the amount of shares she owns is insignificant.
