Lawyers to oppose HR manager's reinstatement; "Apprehension of bias well-founded": Judge; Sham contracting case shelved; and Train drivers not "systematically overworked": Full court.
A director repeatedly targeted by the FWO who "brazenly" continued operating businesses despite a restraining order and habitually and deliberately underpaid workers has been ordered to stump-up $479,000 in penalties against him and his companies.
The FWC has ordered a university to allow an advisor to work from home one day a week, despite finding it had reasonable business grounds to reject the two-days-a-week WFH flexibility request she made on the basis of her age.
Deregulate the establishment and administration of registered unions and "let the red unions rip through the industrial relations system" to restore Australia's productivity and wealth, Red Unions Support Hub managing director Jack McGuire told the recent HR Nicholls Society national conference.
Labor will release legislation for a wide-ranging labour hire licensing scheme within 100 days of its return at the March election, Minns Government IR Minister Sophie Cotsis promised today.
A court has awarded more than $500,000 in penalties to an 80-year-old former pistol club manager paid for more than a decade just $250 a week, from which the employer deducted $100 as rent for the on-site mobile home she lived in with her disabled son.
Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
A FWC full bench has thrown out a nurse's challenge to his sacking, endorsing earlier findings that he improperly used personal leave to campaign in a union election.
A marine superintendent who unsuccessfully challenged a cruise operator's right to stand him down during the Covid-19 pandemic has failed to have the decision belatedly anonymised, after a FWC full bench expressed doubt that it could affect his job prospects.
