A $400,000-a-year company lawyer's adverse action case has fallen at the first hurdle after the FWC found him bound by a settlement deed despite claims that its terms had not been finalised.
Shelving a major retail award conditions buy-out bid while the Albanese Government pursues penalty rate reforms would be a dereliction of duty, the Australian Retailers Association has told the FWC.
The FWC has rejected a real estate agent's claim that his employer fooled him into resigning, finding its move to enforce post-employment restraints after he joined a competitor did not retrospectively turn a mutually agreed separation into an unfair dismissal.
As plans for a national portable entitlements scheme remain in limbo, the NT's Finocchiaro Government has repealed legislation that would have extended portable long service leave to the community services sector, arguing that it would result in increased fees for parents using childcare and would be too costly for the Government.
A 48-hour midwives strike would have endangered the lives of mothers and babies, the FWC has ruled, in newly-published reasons explaining why it suspended the stoppage.
The FWC has rejected an employer's $5000 costs claim against a self-represented worker while questioning its use of lawyers, finding some expenses not "judiciously incurred" in defending her constructive dismissal case.
The FWC has issued an entry permit to a CFMEU organiser previously imprisoned for a two-day robbery spree, after an initially leery presidential member accepted that the former methamphetamine addict has turned his life around.
The FWC has found that a nine-week gap in an Uber Eats driver's recent work history made him ineligible to claim unfair deactivation, while refusing the company's bid to import the "reasonable expectation of continuing work" principle from the unfair dismissal jurisdiction.
In a genuine redundancy ruling, the FWC has confirmed that it simply needs to consider whether employers have notified a retrenchment in writing, rather than whether they have provided notice in "the most optimum manner".
A former Labor MP and current FWC deputy president has, after fending off another recusal application, dismissed claims it would be unfair, unreasonable or unconstitutional to grant same-job, same-pay orders lifting the pay of on-hire workers at a Whitehaven coal mine by up to $30,000 a year.
