The FWC in reasons for issuing a temporary "national security" anti-strike order on the weekend, has rejected the CPSU's argument that the tribunal has no power to make interim orders and should have expedited a full hearing of the matter.
Two companies and their director that underpaid two Indian citizens and engaged in sham contracting and adverse action have been ordered to pay $200,000 in penalties and compensation.
The Federal Circuit Court has ordered a Mahjong club to pay more than $415,000 in compensation for breaching state and federal IR laws and engaging in adverse action when it moved a full-time tea attendant to a part-time role because of his workers' compensation claim.
The FWC has acceded to an urgent CPSU request to delay until Thursday a hearing into whether to extend an interim ban on industrial action at international airports.
Positive drug test justifies sacking; THC-positive worker to get his day in tribunal; Bench upholds BHP Coal's sacking of worker for safety breach; Genuine redundancy after Amex outsources work to India; and Threats no way to negotiate with employer.
A FWC full bench has rejected an employer's bid to block protected industrial action, confirming that its invalid notice of employee representational rights didn't knock out a union's protected action ballot application.
A self-described IR advisory sector "disrupter" that unfairly dismissed an injured worker has won an order to prohibit publication of the compensation decision, after arguing it would provide competitors with "significant insight" into its business.
The Federal Court has delayed the contractor driver minimum payments road safety remuneration order that was to take effect today, granting NatRoad a stay order late on Friday afternoon that is now being challenged by the TWU.
The FWC has ordered Immigration and Border Force employees at international airports to return to work today after making an interim decision to suspend protected action.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a Centrelink officer who described customers as "spastics" and "whingeing junkies" on social media and posted comments that allegedly criticised the government and brought his employer's reputation into disrepute.
