A security company has been ordered to pay more than $40,000 compensation to a former manager after the FWC found its owner/chief executive pressured him to sign a new contract with higher sales targets and broader constraint clauses and then told him to "finish up" when he refused.
A High Court challenge launched by ousted leaders of the CFMEU construction division's Queensland branch seeks an urgent hearing to deal with claims the Albanese Government's administration scheme is unconstitutional and intended to gag the division in the lead-up to the next federal election.
FWC general manager Murray Furlong has withdrawn his Federal Court application to put the CFMEU's construction and general division into administration, after the Albanese Government passed legislation to serve the same purpose.
The FWC has backed Ambulance Victoria's decision to transfer a "socially inept" paramedic 350 kilometres away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague.
The MEU has opened up another front in its continuing battles with BHP, claiming in a new Federal Court case that the mining giant is breaching award provisions by failing to give its Operations Services in-house labour hire workforce Christmas and Boxing Day off and not seeking majority support for regular shifts in excess of 10 hours.
Productivity in the private sector dropped sharply in the June quarter as hours worked and real labour costs increased, according to ABS national accounts data released today.
The FWC has refused to extend time for a convicted child s-x offender sacked after his employer discovered his use of a pseudonym to conceal his past, rejecting a psychologist's "contradictory" evidence about his capacity to complete the necessary forms.
The FWC has given distribution giant Metcash and its on-hire labour providers six weeks to say whether they will oppose a SDA and UWU claim for same-job, same-pay orders locking in annual pay rises of up to $12,700.
The FWC has upheld a law firm's dismissal of a solicitor accused of "gaming" its timekeeping system to boost a junior colleague's billable hours and telling an opposing practitioner his client was a "c-nt".
A self-represented on-hire mineworker looks likely to win same-job, same-pay orders for labour hire employees at South32's Cannington silver, lead and zinc mine in Queensland, after labour supplier TP Human Capital told the FWC it would not oppose it.
