A director repeatedly targeted by the FWO who "brazenly" continued operating businesses despite a restraining order and habitually and deliberately underpaid workers has been ordered to stump-up $479,000 in penalties against him and his companies.
A court has rejected a probationary employee's claim that a public sector employer sacked her because she has a disability, took sick and carer's leave and lodged an anti-bullying claim, accepting that the employer simply decided she did not have the skills and aptitude to perform her job.
A court has awarded more than $500,000 in penalties to an 80-year-old former pistol club manager paid for more than a decade just $250 a week, from which the employer deducted $100 as rent for the on-site mobile home she lived in with her disabled son.
Men in the finance sector are starting to take paid parental leave at similar or higher rates than women when employers offer gender-neutral schemes, according to a FSU report that calls for the scrapping of primary and secondary carer-based models.
A FWC full bench has thrown out a nurse's challenge to his sacking, endorsing earlier findings that he improperly used personal leave to campaign in a union election.
Treasury's latest intergenerational report, released this afternoon, predicts Australia will have a far older working-age population in the 2060s, while artificial intelligence is expected to help achieve its long-term productivity growth assumptions.
The FWC has made it clear that it is not its role to protect the personal assets of directors, in dismissing a mining services contractor's request to escape paying $190,000 in redundancies.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an unfairly sacked WesTrac specialist who altered a leave claim to secure payment for public holidays during the Stokes family-controlled company's end-of-year shutdown period.
The FWC has rejected a teacher's argument that he is entitled to paid parental leave beyond paid partner leave on the basis that his wife "granted" him parental responsibility when she returned to work.
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.
