A "unique situation" has given a FWC member the confidence to make a rare agreement variation order in circumstances where no common intention during bargaining could be established.
Consultation has begun on the 2028 closure of EnergyAustralia's Yallourn power station, as the just transition authority develops guidelines for its grant program.
An application to deal with a s-xual harassment dispute has been ruled invalid after the FWC found the alleged conduct a continuation of actions that began before new powers to intervene took effect.
A new FWC member has recalled how he made the "unusual" choice of the talismanic Weipa mine dispute as the subject of a school assignment after developing an interest in a field nurtured by absolutely no-one.
The FWC has thrown out a real estate employee's claim that her employer unfairly summarily dismissed her for sending herself confidential information and setting up a competing business.
A FWC member has thrown out the dispute application of a disability support worker who showed an "abject disregard" for the tribunal and deliberately flouted its direction not to contact a former client.
A FWC member has criticised a union's "sneaky" application for a protected action ballot at one of nine interconnected workplaces as potentially "dragg[ing]" members into an industrial campaign "they did not authorise".
In a significant ruling on stand downs, a full bench has upheld a challenge to a hospital's refusal to pay a nurse who declined redeployment to another ward due to a work ban, but found on redetermination that the employer was otherwise entitled to withhold payment.
After initially boosting First Nations employment largely in lower-level roles, an APS leadership program has doubled their number in senior executive service positions over the last two years, the latest state of the public service report has revealed, which also spells out the continuing prevalence of working from home.
Men are using reproductive leave almost as much as women, a Queensland Council of Unions survey of State public sector workers has revealed, one year after the introduction of the entitlement.
