The FWC has found a top sales operator made redundant the day before her parental leave started was in fact unfairly dismissed, with her employer apparently transferring into her role its lowest performer "by a significant margin".
After four months of industrial action, Maurice Blackburn employees have won an 11% wage increase over three years - and a bigger 12.5% rise for those on five-figure incomes - along with six days of reproductive leave and the ability to cash out unused health and wellbeing leave.
The NSW Government will establish a bullying and harassment jurisdiction in the State IRC in an attempt to prevent psychological injuries, as part of wider reforms to the workers' compensation scheme.
The FWC has found a supervisor's "grossly inappropriate" treatment of young subordinates amounted to a significant breach of his obligations and warranted his summary dismissal.
BHP is trying to "buy" support from its OS in-house labour hire workforce for a new production agreement by offering a $10,000 sign-on bonus, according to the Mining and Energy Union, after a parallel agreement for its maintenance cohort got across the line after it put forward the same sweetener.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a worker who covertly recorded and shared conversations with colleagues and sent them offensive late-night emails while pursuing old grievances, a tribunal member observing that he "needed to be stopped".
A decorated scientist whose job offer was withdrawn after becoming the subject of a workplace investigation has failed to persuade the FWC that despite the absence of a signed contract, an all-staff announcement and time spent at meetings related to the role established an employment relationship.
Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt has hinted at further IR election policies, while accusing the Liberal Party of directly lifting commitments to slash the public service and wind back WFH, diversity and inclusion policies from Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency playbook.
A union member acting as a maintenance contractor's health and safety representative has won interim reinstatement while the Federal Court weighs claims that the company sacked him for raising complaints about everything from silica dust exposure to welding fumes and fatigue management.
The FWC has refused to confine same-job, same-pay orders at a BHP coal mine to haul truck drivers, because the site's industrial instruments do not use the term and on-hire employees perform various other roles.
