Industrial action is continuing at Maurice Blackburn after the ASU rejected the firm's latest "inadequate" pay offer, while the recently voted up agreement for rival plaintiff law firm Slater and Gordon lifts pay by 10.9% for workers, including early-career lawyers.
Victoria Police and the Police Association have until close of business today to accept a peace deal brokered by the FWC that boosts wages by 5% a year for general duties officers and 4.5% for others.
A court has ordered Airservices Australia to reinstate a would-be firefighter who claims it discriminated him against him because of his type 1 diabetes.
A FWC full bench has overturned the rejection of a late adverse action application in which a worker claims symptoms caused by Parkinson's disease "perfectly matched" the performance reasons given for his sacking.
An asset management company breached the employment contract of an analyst accused of making a fictitious manual entry of more than $284,000, but did not subject her to adverse action after alleging its leaders bullied her, a court has held.
A FWC full bench has refused to overturn the dismissal of a worker in a safety-critical role, upholding a member's finding that the seriousness of the worker's three positive drug tests outweighed procedural shortcomings.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of an aged care home manager found to have signed off on a colleague's "ludicrous" work-from-home arrangement while apparently harbouring hopes that their close relationship would deepen.
A dance instructor's refusal to take out the rubbish did not justify his sacking, the FWC has held, while his visa status has contributed to a finding of harshness.
Virgin Australia has failed to reverse the reinstatement of a flight attendant sacked for drinking a glass of prosecco within eight hours of a shift, and further accused of breaching its fatigue management policy by having s-x after requesting a shift change due to tiredness.
A worker's continued refusal to take responsibility for a workplace car accident and his "highly inappropriate" emails criticising the investigation of the collision warranted his dismissal, the FWC has ruled.
