The CBA is rolling out new contracts for staff on legacy individual flexibility arrangements and admitting ahead of a Federal Court hearing that the IFAs breached the Fair Work Act, but the FSU says it must get the process right for those wanting to revert to the agreement.
Former FWC Deputy President Peter Sams has foreshadowed the Federal Labor Government might introduce sector-wide bargaining changes by the end of the year in a bid to boost wage growth, but an employment law academic says there are three clear roadblocks to such a move.
A former public health service chief executive who claimed discrimination on the basis of "severe depression" has failed to overturn a tribunal's finding that it lacks the power to hear his bid for reinstatement and compensation.
A services company that claims it gave workers an "almost excessive" chance to vote on a new deal to make up for failing to provide details until a day before the ballot opened, blaming union "threats" for a low turnout, has failed to convince the FWC it constituted a "minor error" that should not block approval.
A senior Aldi manager challenging the legality of being denied primary carer's leave under the retailer's apparently rebranded parental leave policy is suing the supermarket giant for discrimination, after it allegedly brought his redundancy forward and cut 26 weeks off his payout while he was on leave.
The FWC has accepted "social media equivalent" evidence of employee opposition before rejecting a food co-op's bid to terminate an agreement on the basis its wage rates could force the business to close.
A government corporation's HR manager had "zero interest" in discussing workplace COVID-19 vaccination requirements with a worker who justifiably raised the matter under an agreement's dispute terms, the FWC has found.
In a case involving one lawyer accusing another of being "either breathtakingly stupid or complicit in the ongoing fraud", a Federal Court judge has today refused to throw out an adverse action case brought by a storeperson sacked for refusing to wear a mask.
The FWC in upholding the sacking of a worker who ran late every day for nearly four years and kept failing to use its bundy system has also identified her fake vaccination certificate and recommended referring her alleged offence to authorities.
The Albanese Labor Government will on Thursday introduce legislation entitling all employees, including casuals, to an annual 10 days paid family and domestic violence leave from early next year.
