The FWC has declined to extend time by 13 seconds for a prison guard sacked for failing to disclose his involvement in a s-xual harassment case that resulted in a young worker receiving $125,000 compensation.
As unions pursue an intractable bargaining bid for BHP's Port Hedland iron ore export operations, the FWC will today hear the company's application for bargaining orders against the ETU, alleging it failed to negotiate in good faith.
Workers who have been s-xually harassed are waiting years for their complaints to be heard because of a surge in cases and a failure by the Federal Government to increase funding to enable the Australian Human Rights Commission to deal with them promptly, according to the ETU.
The FWC has extended time for an employee to lodge her late adverse action claim because she tried twice to file it online within time and twice more soon afterwards, before fronting the registry and lodging it in person.
A labour supplier has failed to win costs against the AWU, after claiming that a PALM scheme worker had not authorised the union to file an unfair dismissal claim that it ultimately discontinued.
The FWC has cleared a general manager's late unfair sacking claim to proceed after a law firm's graduate employee advised him to file it in the wrong jurisdiction, finding it "unreasonable and unrealistic" to assume the GM had been in a good position to identify the correct forum.
Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
The FWC will early next year hear FAAA and TWU bids to boost flight attendants' pay up to 60% by overhauling the modern award, relying on gender-based undervaluation and changes to the nature of their work.
A bargaining dispute between the FSU and the Reserve Bank heads to the FWC today, as the union seeks to head off a second-round offer it believes will be unchanged from an original proposal voted down in July.
