The FWC has thrown out a worker's flexible work bid after she attempted to "call in" older medical documents and conceded she had not been diagnosed with the disability identified in her request.
The High Court has refused special leave for the MEU to challenge a Federal Court majority decision that quashed a finding that the Black Coal Award requires BHP's in-house labour hire arm to give its workforce two common public holidays off each year.
The FWC has upheld a council's decision to refuse a worker's flexible work request, finding it had reasonable business grounds to align rosters with its revised operating hours and increase employee presence for safety reasons.
An accounting firm that knowingly misled a Fair Work Inspector investigating its exploitative cashback scheme has been ordered to pay total penalties of $177,000 by the Federal Circuit and Family Court.
The FWC has taken on board a FIFO Shell worker's failure to attend physiotherapy appointments after breaking his back, in dismissing a dispute over the flexible work job-share bids he and a colleague lodged to ease their way into retirement.
A meat union delegate who has had hundreds of thousands of dollars in employer penalties paid into his union's coffers has added almost $90,000 more to his tally, this time from Woolworths.
The NSW Industrial Court has found that a worker who started out as a "volunteer trainee" had been an employee and should have been paid, because he worked regularly and "meaningfully contributed" to the business.
The Federal Government should replace casual loading with an "unpredictability" bonus for those in genuinely insecure work, expand coverage of the National Employment Standards to capture many currently classified as casuals, and change the definition of "employee-like", according to the Centre for Future Work's David Peetz.
The FWC has upheld a coal mining company's right to stop accrual of annual leave for employees when they take industrial action or are locked out, in a decision with potential implications for the wider industry.
