A FWC full bench has reinstated a rubbish truck driver sacked for a low-level alcohol reading, finding that the initial decision relied on reasons the employer had not put forward, without considering whether the driver had an opportunity to respond.
Resilience, productivity and sustainability will be the focus of the looming economic reform roundtable, and RBA governor Michelle Bullock, Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood and treasury secretary Jenny Wilkinson will each kick off a day of the three-day assembly, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said today.
The SDA has lodged a new supported bargaining application seeking to cover 115,000 McDonald's workers across the country, off the back of its recent win in South Australia.
The FWC's youngest member has told a welcome ceremony how her 20-year journey to the tribunal began as a teenager when she successfully hauled her employer to court to recover six months of unpaid wages.
After more than 30 years leading CPSU Victoria, Karen Batt appears to have been toppled by challenger Jiselle Hanna, in the first contested ballot in two decades.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a worker who attempted to file his unfair dismissal claim two hours before the deadline, finding that by waiting until the last minute, he risked encountering technical difficulties.
The FWC has ordered reinstatement for a professor who sent "intimate and romantic" messages to a student, including a photo of himself in his boxers, finding that his seven-year unblemished record since his recently-uncovered relationship mitigated his behaviour.
A worker who threatened his managers that he would set bikies on them and that he had "a bullet with your name on it" resigned in the "heat of the moment" and should have been given the chance to retract it, but the FWC has upheld his dismissal because his menacing behaviour amounted to serious misconduct.
A HR manager opportunistically accused a disgruntled employee of leaking confidential information to "put the blow-torch" to him over his dogged pursuit of underpayments, a court has found.
The FWC has refused to reduce a worker's 16-week redundancy payment after finding that when it comes to determining whether an employer has offered "other acceptable employment", assisting with identifying alternatives "falls short" of procuring a new role.
