The FWC has banned hundreds of subcontractor workers at six Lend Lease projects in Queensland from taking unlawful industrial action in support of protected strikes by two dozen of the construction giant's direct employees.
A Toll subsidiary must reinstate two long-serving employees after the FWC found it wasn't fair to sack them over a safety incident it exaggerated and insufficiently investigated.
The employer of a manager jailed for child s-x abuse denied him procedural fairness and should have obtained external advice before sacking him, but the FWC has found the dismissal a proportionate response.
The FWC terminated protected action at airports because suspension would have provided a "non-permanent conclusion" to the long-running bargaining dispute between the CPSU and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
The High Court has outlined principles to apply when assessing employers' vicarious liability in its ruling that a former boarder should not have been granted an extension of time to pursue a college over his sexual abuse by a housemaster half a century ago.
Employees on above-agreement wages can be disciplined for discussing pay or asking colleagues if they have received an increase, under a new deal for oil and gas industry transport workers approved by the FWC yesterday.
The Victorian Supreme Court has ordered the Country Fire Authority to produce communications with its minister and advice it received from the Andrews Government about its proposed new enterprise agreement.
A court has cleared the way for an employee to pursue claims for $29,000 in allegedly unpaid overtime and lunch breaks after finding her employment contract failed to specify the provisions of the clerks award that would be bought out in her annualised salary.
A court has penalised a medical surgery and its directors more than $50,000 for coercive threats to force a doctor to withdraw a complaint to the FWO and adverse action when the practice stopped paying him.
