The High Court will next month consider whether to grant special leave to hear the first appeal to reach its doors over government COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
A government corporation's HR manager had "zero interest" in discussing workplace COVID-19 vaccination requirements with a worker who justifiably raised the matter under an agreement's dispute terms, the FWC has found.
In a case involving one lawyer accusing another of being "either breathtakingly stupid or complicit in the ongoing fraud", a Federal Court judge has today refused to throw out an adverse action case brought by a storeperson sacked for refusing to wear a mask.
ABC Commissioner Steve McBurney says the construction watchdog will close if it is defunded, even if the Albanese Labor Government fails to win Senate support for legislation to abolish it.
The FWC in upholding the sacking of a worker who ran late every day for nearly four years and kept failing to use its bundy system has also identified her fake vaccination certificate and recommended referring her alleged offence to authorities.
The revised national construction code, which applies from today, takes away the power to grant exemptions and exclusion sanctions from ABC Commissioner Steve McBurney and invests them in Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
The FWC has suspended the entry permit of a CFMMEU organiser held to have flagrantly abused his power and urged workers to drive into him while he claimed to be responding to safety concerns, with another official also facing the temporary loss of his permit.
The Albanese Labor Government will on Thursday introduce legislation entitling all employees, including casuals, to an annual 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave from early next year.
The TWU is seeking the reinstatement of an Amazon Flex courier claimed to have been kicked off the retail behemoth's platform without notice or explanation, in a case testing general carrier provisions in the NSW IR Act while the union calls for equivalent federal protections.
The turmoil at airports might be about to get worse, with TWU set to apply to the FWC for a protected action ballot at a key aviation service business, dnata, which provides services to Qantas and other airlines.