BHP says it has contingency plans in place to ensure continuity of power supply to its Pilbara mines and ports, as 60 workers who operate its remote electricity grid threaten what it says is its WA iron ore operation's first protected action this century.
An early childhood education trainee has won more than $10,000 compensation after the FWC found her employer had no reason to sack her by text based on "vague" examples of misconduct and failure to complete a qualification for which she had not yet been assessed.
The RBA had no obligation to pay a senior employee during a seven-month period when he claimed to be "ready and willing" to work as long as it did not involve consecutive days, "high stress" assignments or meeting with HR, the FWC has found.
A judge has flagged compensation of more than $600,000 for a former St Vincent de Paul Society senior manager unlawfully sacked following a "sham" HR probe, but declined to award more after finding she misled the court and exaggerated her incapacity.
A FWC full bench has upheld the reinstatement of a senior academic dismissed for sending "intimate and romantic" messages to a PhD student he supervised.
The dedicated union for air traffic controllers has lost the first part of a demarcation dispute, after the FWC accepted that it and the TWU have overlapping coverage of Airservices Australia air traffic controllers.
WA Catholic education employers have won a rare voting request order allowing them to put a single interest multi-deal to a ballot despite the IEU's opposition, as the union accuses them of using the Secure Jobs tool as a "battering ram".
Economists, labour market researchers, and unions have hit back at claims more deregulation is the key to productivity growth, in submissions to a Senate inquiry.
The FWC has rejected the unfair dismissal claim of a Workpac on-hire trades assistant shunted from a BHP Coal mine while on approved leave, finding it a redundancy regardless of whether the host engaged someone else in the role.
The FWC has cleared the way for a worker to challenge his "unusual" temporary sacking, confirming an administrative error that unintentionally ousts an employee can still amount to a "dismissal at law".
