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Burlesque performer forced out of "dream job": FWC

An employer forced a burlesque performer to resign from her "dream job" as a result of its late payment of wages and the business's "persistent disorganisation", the FWC has found.

Watt fast-tracks FEG access for Mosaic workers

The Albanese Government is fast-tracking access to the taxpayer-funded FEG scheme for up to 2800 employees of Australia's largest specialty fashion retailer, Mosaic Brands, ahead of the company being placed into liquidation, while the administrators for the Whyalla steelworks will today seek court approval for unions to represent employees at next week's first creditors' meeting..

FWC backs parent's bid for extra remote work

The FWC has overruled an employer's resistance to a working parent's request to work an extra day a fortnight at home to care for his toddler daughter until she reaches two years of age, while rejecting its claims that it would set a precedent for the remainder of its workforce.

"Only one Easter miracle" sacking upheld

The FWC has upheld the sacking of a manager on the Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest-owned Lizard Island who emailed a former colleague's employment contract to a friend with HR experience in an effort to build an underpayment case.

High Court to hear genuine redundancy case next month

The High Court will next month begin hearing mining giant Peabody's challenge to a full Federal Court finding that it did not genuinely make workers redundant when it failed to consider whether it could redeploy workers to jobs performed by contractors.

Flexible work disputes moving in wrong direction: Expert

The FWC has become overly focussed on verifying workers' eligibility for flexible work requests by imposing onerous evidentiary requirements on them, which has limited the effectiveness of its new dispute power, a researcher has told the review panel in her response to its Secure Jobs, Better Pay draft report.

Government seeking to reform FEG to oust "shonks"

DEWR is consulting on potential changes to the Fair Entitlements Guarantee, after finding an increasing number of companies are deliberately using the scheme, designed as a "last resort", to avoid their obligations.

Redundancy upheld despite deficient consultation

A major construction company has avoided having to compensate a worker despite failing to properly consult with him over his redundancy, after the FWC found on balance that such "deficiencies" ultimately did not make the dismissal unfair.

Flex orders for union organiser who resisted RTO

In rare flexibility orders won by an ANMF organiser who moved 500km from the office after experiencing domestic violence, the FWC has temporarily blocked the union from requiring her to work more than three nights per fortnight away from home and directed it to count travel time as work time between certain hours for the first half of the school year.

Experts canvass reasons for low FDV leave uptake

Low uptake of family and domestic violence leave might be explained by a number of "significant, complex" barriers that employers can address, including a lack of manager training on how to help workers to access the entitlement, a new study has found.

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