The TWU is decrying the Flying Kangaroo's decision to seek special leave from the High Court to challenge the full Federal Court ruling that it took unlawful adverse action when it contracted-out its ground handling functions to prevent workers from exercising their workplace rights to bargain and engage in industrial action, while rival Virgin Australia has told its workforce that it will end its wage freeze.
The FWC in upholding the sacking of an unvaccinated KFC worker has found it "regrettable" HR sent auto-generated letters that led her to believe she was dismissed for abandoning her job.
Amazon has settled a Federal Court action alleging it discriminated against a Sydney warehouse worker by withdrawing an offer of permanent employment once she mentioned she was pregnant.
A Federal Court judge has affirmed the primacy of federal over state laws in determining that NSW workers compensation caps did not shackle the amounts he could award to a long-serving manager whose life was "effectively destroyed" by a new chief executive.
A FWC full bench has overturned the reinstatement of a ANU professor sacked for his "s-xually intimate" interactions with a student while skinny-dipping, while underlining that its ruling had nothing to do with being "wowserish".
The HSU is seeking in a Federal Court action to establish that outsourced kitchen and food services work performed in aged care facilities is covered by the industry's award rather than the lower-paying hospitality award.
The FWC's minimum wage panel has given Prime Minister Anthony Albanese until Friday to lodge a submission to this year's annual wage review, but has asked him to keep it to 10 pages.
To address Indigenous Australians' under-representation in the workforce, employers need to create employment targets and inclusive leave policies and recognise workers' diverse needs, according to a new report.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a multinational business's sales representative who ignored repeated warnings that she had crossed the chief executive's "line in the sand" over speeding in company cars.
A former JB HiFi worker's objection to a settlement term preventing her from ever working for the company again after an "unsavoury" incident was not enough to revive her unfair dismissal claim, the FWC has found.
