An employer must pay compensation to a "pro-choice" worker sacked for missing a COVID-19 vaccination deadline after the FWC found that, unlike a colleague, it failed to afford her a chance to take leave while awaiting the impending approval of the Novavax jab.
The ANMF will continue to pursue a nursing home it says should be paying members for the time it takes to perform a COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test before entering the facility, despite the FWC find it unclear "what possible basis" existed to make such a claim.
The CBA is rolling out new contracts for staff on legacy individual flexibility arrangements and admitting ahead of a Federal Court hearing that the IFAs breached the Fair Work Act, but the FSU says it must get the process right for those wanting to revert to the agreement.
A former public health service chief executive who claimed discrimination on the basis of "severe depression" has failed to overturn a tribunal's finding that it lacks the power to hear his bid for reinstatement and compensation.
A former economics professor's troubled relationship with workplace laws has continued, after a court accepted that he "actively" managed an underpaying grocery store previously fined for similar breaches.
A services company that claims it gave workers an "almost excessive" chance to vote on a new deal to make up for failing to provide details until a day before the ballot opened, blaming union "threats" for a low turnout, has failed to convince the FWC it constituted a "minor error" that should not block approval.
The FWC has accepted "social media equivalent" evidence of employee opposition before rejecting a food co-op's bid to terminate an agreement on the basis its wage rates could force the business to close.
A judge has in slugging a CFMMEU organiser with a $12,500 personal fine speculated that counsel for the ABCC may have led a "sheltered" existence in not appreciating that the official had aimed a "quite disgusting" homophobic slur at a project's safety adviser.
