The NTEU is calling on Monash University to rectify $9 million in alleged underpayments to casual teachers after the FWC rejected a bid to retrospectively vary its agreement, while its vice chancellor and soon-to-be Victorian Governor says that without a "grand bargain" their payment systems will remain an "unproductive source of contestation".
Resources giant Santos has been ordered to pay $65,000 to a worker sacked for telling a contractor to "take a sickie" during a strike, the FWC finding the dismissal harsh after weighing his long and unblemished career.
A managing director has been hit with $125,000 in damages and penalties for failing to pay out a worker's entitlements and threatening to "destroy" his and his family's lives.
The FWC has granted a first-time entry permit to a CFMMEU organiser with an extensive criminal past that includes assault, auto theft, trespass, breaching a restraining order, property damage and weapons convictions after hearing he turned his life around following a 10-month jail term in 2017.
The FWC has awarded zero compensation to an unvaccinated former Boeing worker at the same time as it has lambasted the subsidiary that unfairly sacked him for failing to inform him of the result of his redeployment bid.
A court has awarded costs against a worker who scoffed at "ludicrous" settlement offers made by his former employer, suggesting he should have given more than 30 minutes' thought to the consequences before rejecting them.
The FWC's national practice leader for bargaining has started the clock on compulsory conciliation while a strike vote is conducted, having also used one of the first applications under new workplace laws to suggest that while the "recency" of the provisions made a case for endorsing an unapproved ballot agent, the bar will be higher in future.
A court has ordered a juice bar that pocketed a worker's JobKeeper payments to cough up nearly $30,000 and its director $5000 for ignoring a FWO compliance notice, signalling to the restaurant and cafe sector that its lawbreaking record has created a need for "very substantial general deterrence".
A Federal Court judge has noted a pilot's "disturbing lack of candour" in whittling back the challenge of eight former Virgin and Jetstar employees to their dismissals for failing to comply with COVID-19 vaccination policies.
