The FWC is seeking feedback on its provisional view that it should order Secure Parking to reinstate a full-time compliance manager to a part-time position, finding Japanese-owned company unfairly dismissed him during a cost-cutting redundancy round.
The FWC has acceded to BHP's request for it to bring almost 140 of its BHP OS on-hire workers in-house, to reduce the workload involved with managing multiple enterprise agreements and address "the potential for disharmony in the workforce".
The SDA has gladly dropped multiple bids for supported bargaining at McDonald's stores and franchise outlets after the FWC granted the fast food giant a nationwide single interest authorisation, clearing the way for voluntary multi-employer bargaining.
The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned orders blocking a law firm from acting for a rival practice's former employed solicitor, in a decision finding that information imparted while training and mentoring a junior lawyer did not justify a restraint on his future employer.
A worker has resigned from Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital following a FWC finding that her employer can continue with a disciplinary process, after police charged her over a protest at an Israeli restaurant and a doxxing organisation revealed her identity.
A casino manager did not mean to suggest that Crown Melbourne would use its CCTV coverage to "get" a worker if she challenged its refusal of her flexible work application to care for her sick mother, when he pointedly talked about her being under constant surveillance, a tribunal has found.
The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked mine site cleaner who said he had been too drunk to remember skinny-dipping after being "egged on" by colleagues at a Christmas party in their accommodation village.
A former Accenture ER manager will have a chance to replead an adverse action case in which she alleges she spent years pressing the global professional services firm to address potential exposure to multi-million dollar claims for unpaid overtime before it sacked her for supposedly "preventing" further analysis of the issue.
The FWC has refused to stay same-job, same-pay orders pending an appeal in June, because it would deny new workers increased pay, after poultry processing company Bartter switched labour-hire providers shortly after the tribunal made orders.
The FWC has backed a mining company's denial of a worker's request for flexible work to enable her to care for her baby, in a decision finding fairness a "neutral consideration" where both parties have acted reasonably.
