A public servant who claimed he should have received six weeks carer's leave to escort his frail father back to India for a specialist's appointment and physiotherapy has failed to convince a senior FWC member, who found no evidence to suggest he could not have been treated locally.
The FWC has upbraided an early learning facility for seeking to override a part-time employee's right to predictable hours that the employer found "commercially or operationally inconvenient".
An emergency care flight service has withdrawn objections to an ANMF protected action ballot of nurses and midwives, and the FWC has found no reason to block it, after the union inserted a caveat to protect patient safety.
A senior FWC member has backed a university's approach to consultations ahead of planned job cuts, while observing its unsustainable financial position makes redundancies "inevitable".
The FWC has refused to stay a single interest bargaining authorisation for six Chemist Warehouse franchisees while an appeal is underway, because it could "derail" negotiations for several months, when the permit only stands for a year.
Victoria's emergency services minister did not engage in unlawful coercive conduct when, in the midst of the FWC hearing a dispute brought by the UFU, she intervened to stop the State's firefighting agency establishing a firefighters' registration board, a full Federal Court majority has ruled today.
Following on from its wins at Sydney and Melbourne independent bookstores, RAFFWU is leading strikes and work bans at Berkelouw Books and Harry Hartog, where it says workers remain on a small-cohort 2012 "zombie" agreement that the union says pays "poverty wages" and should never have been approved.
The FWC has announced a first-of-its-kind review of protected action ballot agents approved under Secure Jobs legislation, revealing that one has captured more than a third of the market.
A "unique situation" has given a FWC member the confidence to make a rare agreement variation order in circumstances where no common intention during bargaining could be established.
A FWC member has thrown out the dispute application of a disability support worker who showed an "abject disregard" for the tribunal and deliberately flouted its direction not to contact a former client.
