Almost a year after orders became available under Labor's landmark same-job, same-pay laws, a review of progress by Workplace Express indicates there have been about 50 decisions, with the MEU, UWU, AMIEU and SDA accounting for more than 70% of them.
The workplace watchdog's power to hold franchisors to account for franchisees' underpayments has been bolstered, after a full Federal Court today threw out a challenge by the Bakers Delight chain.
The FWC has found a flexible working request invalid, because of its "tenuous" connection to the worker's caring responsibilities and the strain his absence would have imposed on other workers.
The general manager of a cosmetics services chain who held dual roles that in combination paid above the high-income threshold can pursue an unfair dismissal claim because it only relates to one of her positions, the FWC has held.
The NSW PSA has won a rule change to enable it to cover speed camera operators after it resolved an ASU objection via undertakings allowing either of them to ask the ACTU to help settle any demarcation disputes before heading to private arbitration.
A court has temporarily barred the NTEU from pursuing a FWC dispute application challenging a UTS decision to suspend enrolments into more than 100 courses, a month after SafeWork NSW lifted a prohibition notice pausing planned layoffs at the university.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a worker who "misrepresented" the reason for a one-day delay in filing her unfair dismissal application, when she blamed the Commission for sending an email to the wrong address.
The FWC has thrown out a worker's unfair dismissal claim after he threatened his employer's chief executive with a "double tap to the head", disobeyed FWC directions and sent the employer more than 200 emails in a single week containing "nonsense" and further menaces.
A court has fined an employer more than $42,000 for refusing to let AMIEU NSW branch assistant secretary Jason Schultz enter its lunchroom to speak with workers the day before they were to vote on a new agreement, while also threatening to call the police.
Grave diggers and funeral workers are set to vote on strikes and cremation bans after the FWC rejected claims that no amount of notice will avert "significant consequences", while also backing the AWU's objection to the employer's proposed survey of its workforce to gauge its views.
