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Queensland's Crisafulli Government has enthusiastically embraced the State Productivity Commission's call to "rationalise" procurement policies as part of an overall construction industry "reset", indicating backing for 51 of 64 recommendations contained in the final report of the QPC's inquiry into the sector.
An "outstanding" teacher sacked for messaging students and giving them lifts has been awarded compensation after the FWC found that his dismissal disproportionate, given its "catastrophic" consequences.
The FWC will seek to persuade the Albanese Government to amend the Fair Work Act to improve the efficiency of its overstretched operations, which are now "simply not sustainable" in the wake of Canberra imposing new Budget restrictions last month and the end of program funding, President Adam Hatcher told members last week.
A FWC full bench has approved two major infrastructure deals after receiving undertakings addressing its concerns about delegates' rights clauses in the wake of last month's full Federal Court judgment upending restrictive provisions the tribunal itself inserted in nine awards.
A senior FWC member has navigated his way around a barrier to issuing interim anti-bullying orders, providing another option to give a Hindu temple's head priest and his employer a chance to restore harmony.
An employer that underpaid an IT specialist it treated as a contractor for 14 years should have addressed the "uncertainty" involved, but its misdeeds nevertheless fell at "the lower end of the seriousness spectrum", a court has found in a penalty ruling.
The FWC has given short shrift to a part-time paid agent who claimed "other commitments" meant he was unable to meet a filing deadline, a senior member observing that the advocate's involvement had done nothing to improve the efficient disposition of an unfair dismissal matter.
A wharfie who tried to rescind a resignation he delivered while apparently having paranoid delusions has won a second shot in claiming Hutchison Ports unfairly sacked him, with a full bench finding no reason to ignore the facts that surfaced after his employer accepted it.
The FWC has voiced concerns over an employer's questioning of meatworkers who signed a petition in support of bargaining and its claims that the AMIEU "coerced" them to do so when they did not understand what it meant.
The Albanese Government has announced that DEWR deputy secretary Tania Rishniw will serve as the department's acting secretary when secretary Natalie James' departs next month, eighteen months before her term expires.
