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The FWC has refreshed its advice on how it assesses whether an applicant is a "fit and proper person" to hold an entry permit, providing examples of those granted and those refused after recently issuing one to a CFMEU organiser "removed" when the union went into administration.
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.
An application to deal with a s-xual harassment dispute has been ruled invalid after the FWC found the alleged conduct a continuation of actions that began before new powers to intervene took effect.
In the latest public sector wage-cap fracture, Northern Territory public servants are weighing a 1% above-cap offer, in-line with a FWC recommendation, but still below the 15% NT police received.
A new FWC member has recalled how he made the "unusual" choice of the talismanic Weipa mine dispute as the subject of a school assignment after developing an interest in a field nurtured by absolutely no-one.
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.
A FWC member has criticised a union's "sneaky" application for a protected action ballot at one of nine interconnected workplaces as potentially "dragg[ing]" members into an industrial campaign "they did not authorise".
In a significant ruling on stand downs, a full bench has upheld a challenge to a hospital's refusal to pay a nurse who declined redeployment to another ward due to a work ban, but found on redetermination that the employer was otherwise entitled to withhold payment.
The FWC has warned the CFMEU against a "burger with the lot" approach to pressing its objections to a proposed construction industry deal, after rejecting an employer's complaints that the union had no involvement in bargaining and has no members covered.
