A HR manager's failure to resolve whether an IT specialist engaged as a contractor 20 years ago became an employee when added to the payroll 12 months later has backfired, after a court found he is owed more than $100,000 in leave entitlements.
Rio Tinto is pushing the FWC to reject the AWU's majority support application for the company's Paraburdoo iron ore mines, arguing that the union doesn't have the numbers and has failed to clearly define the scope of its proposed agreement.
The Albanese Government should pass reforms to make it easier for tens of thousands of Pacific and Timor-Leste workers participating in the PALM scheme to access their superannuation, potentially by having it paid out as wages, according to university researchers.
This week's High Court ruling upholding the CFMEU construction and general division's administration confirms the legislation does not ban political communications or donations, despite assurances made during its passage through Parliament.
In a significant ruling on calculating academics' payments for time spent marking course work, a Federal Court has found the FWO's compliance notice served on an allegedly underpaying private university "bad at law".
CFMEU construction and general division administrator Mark Irving says today's High Court decision upholding the administration "paves the way for the greater systemic reforms" needed for the union and the broader industry, while the Albanese Government says it will give him "all necessary support".
In a genuine redundancy ruling, the FWC has confirmed that it simply needs to consider whether employers have notified a retrenchment in writing, rather than whether they have provided notice in "the most optimum manner".
A former Labor MP and current FWC deputy president has, after fending off another recusal application, dismissed claims it would be unfair, unreasonable or unconstitutional to grant same-job, same-pay orders lifting the pay of on-hire workers at a Whitehaven coal mine by up to $30,000 a year.
