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The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a long-serving security guard summarily dismissed after his corner-cutting habits while patrolling a "potentially dangerous" public housing estate were confirmed by a supervisor posing as a trainee.
An FWC member has rejected a big employer's call to recuse himself from an unfair dismissal case, finding that his long familiarity with its processes and people remained "beneficial" to the parties despite having recently had one of his decisions involving the company overturned on appeal.
The FWC has upheld Sydney Water's sacking of a long-serving employee who deliberately concealed his off-site coffee breaks and avoided "make-up" time and the loss of his RDOs by "tailgating" other employees through security gates.
The Morrison Government has failed to muster the numbers for its Ensuring Integrity Bill, in a dramatic vote that stunned the Senate Chamber this afternoon.
The Morrison Government aims to push the Ensuring Integrity Bill through the Senate today, after claiming support from Centre Alliance and One Nation senators.
The Victorian Parliament has passed legislation to introduce a new offence of industrial manslaughter, as the West Australian government prepares to consider its own law.
A one-day-a-week art tutor who claims she repeatedly refused to switch to an individual contract is suing a non-profit organisation for adverse action and sham contracting by allegedly failing to pay super or leave entitlements and sacking her when she accused them of breaching the Fair Work Act.
In a significant ruling on how Fair Work Act breaches are to be assessed, a Federal Court full bench has invoked double jeopardy principles to strip $48,000 off penalties awarded against the CFMMEU and one of its organisers.
The FWC has rebuffed as "premature" a UWU attempt to ballot Toll Transport employees for industrial action after holding only a single meeting with the company's HR manager to discuss a new agreement.
The nurses union says a plan to let faith-based hospital and aged care providers make discriminatory employment decisions based on religion could affect quality of care, while a teachers' union warns of "unanticipated consequences".
