Former Fair Work Commission Vice-President Michael Lawler's conduct on the ABC's Four Corners program was "far below" what the public was entitled to expect from somebody in his position, according to the silk who investigated his conduct.
A full Federal Court has rebuffed a group of St George Bank managers who claimed the employer engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when it retrenched them after promising they would receive retention bonuses if they stayed in their jobs during a merger with Westpac.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal will take submissions until Monday on whether to delay the April 4 rollout of the contractor driver minimum payments order to January 1 next year and is considering hearing the case during the Easter break.
The conduct of former senior Fair Work Commission member Michael Lawler provides a reasonable basis to ask the Governor-General to remove him on the grounds of proven misbehaviour, according to a report tabled in Federal Parliament.
The FWC has ordered Toll Holdings Ltd to reinstate a worker it sacked for making inappropriate comments about Islam and the Taliban to an Afghani colleague.
An employer complied with its agreement when it substituted Victoria's newly-gazetted AFL Grand Final eve public holiday for the company's Christmas Eve public holiday, a full bench has ruled.
Jetstar Airways must reinstate a 60-year-old engineer it dismissed for driving a "tow tug" – usually used only in airports – on a public road to go and buy his lunch, the FWC ruled today.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of an employee for a relentless six-week email campaign in which he made a "deliberate and concerted effort" to discredit IR and ER employees after his demotion for "racial bullying" of an Indian-origin colleague he claimed was "smelly".
The primary objective of superannuation is to provide retirement income to "substitute or supplement" the age pension, according to a Government proposal in a new discussion paper.
