A jury has found a subsidiary of ASX-listed Mastermyne Group guilty of industrial manslaughter over the death of a mineworker at a Bowen Basin coal mine, in the first successful prosecution since the Queensland Government extended the laws to resources workplaces in 2020.
Three UWU organisers accused of running a "shadow campaign" over bargaining have withdrawn their unfair dismissal claims after reaching financial settlements with the union.
A senior FWC member has told an employer he would "welcome" a costs application after rejecting an AI-assisted general protections bid in which a worker relied on "incoherent" legal arguments and falsehoods to reframe his resignation as a constructive dismissal.
The meat workers union has secured a same-job, same-pay order for on-hire chicken deboning workers at a poultry processing facility, but has failed to win a similar arrangement for outsourced cleaners at the same workplace.
A full Federal Court has confirmed that homecare, disability and social workers should not be paid penalty rates for shifts immediately before or after sleepovers, four months after the FWC made draft award variations that will achieve the opposite.
A court has fined Woolworths $233,250 for denying three part-time employees standard rosters, guaranteed hours and overtime pay, citing a lack of evidence "at the corporate mind level" and awarding the full sum to the AMIEU to encourage its enforcement work.
A Westfield community engagement assistant's belief the company made her work "excessively hard" did not mean it forced her to resign, the FWC has found.
