7-Eleven will settle all underpayment claims and won’t apply any time limits, in the wake of allegations that franchisees systematically exploited employees, company chair Russell Withers has told a Senate inquiry.
An employer has failed in a challenge to the validity of a protected action ballot that extended the voting period by 10 days, with the FWC finding the error was a "technical breach" that did not affect the result.
A group of Lend Lease Building employees will retain membership of a generous defined benefit superannuation scheme, at least until the expiry of their current workplace agreement.
Two employees have failed to win back more than 2,000 hours in sick leave credits they lost when their employment moved from a publicly owned corporation to a private entity after the NSWIRC found there was no transfer of employment.
The MUA is considering appealing a FWC ruling that blocked it from bargaining on behalf of a group of logistics employees involved in preparing containers for delivery to Broome Wharf because they didn't fit the description of "waterside worker".
The Fair Work Commission has dismissed a multinational contracting company's attempt to bypass its severance obligations in an important decision on the definition of the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour" in the contracting and labour hire industries.
Boral Resources has suffered a setback in its push to win more than $20 million in damages from the CFMEU, with the company ordered to pay the union's "substantial" legal costs after its civil trial was adjourned today for six weeks.
The FWC has refused a request by Boral CSR Bricks for an order to stop the CFMEU and AMWU taking industrial action over the company's plan to issue a disciplinary warning to a worker at its Victorian brickworks.
