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The FWC has slashed the redundancy payout owing to a university facilities manager who turned down an alternative role encouraging weekend work to take up a higher paying position with fresh opportunities.
The Federal Court has slammed the door shut on quasi-judicial officeholders earning income for comparable part-time roles in foreign countries, rejecting a former AAT senior member and Labor senator's bid for almost five months' pay following her appointment to a UK appeals tribunal..
The FWC has pointed to a Victoria Police branch's brush with the "red line threshold" for public sector service delivery as reinforcing the business case for rejecting a prosecutor's request to work from home on Mondays.
The Australian subsidiary of a multinational construction company followed a "considered industrial strategy" devised by a former AMWU leader when it refused a senior union official entry to a project to speak to workers, a judge has found.
The Albanese Government is seeking feedback on options to ban non-compete clauses that prevent workers from moving to better paying jobs, potentially taking clients and colleagues with them, along with measures to stop businesses colluding to make no-poach and wage-fixing deals.
The Productivity Commission will be seeking feedback on soon-to-be-released draft recommendations for next month's economic reform roundtable, as it calls for the adoption of a "growth mindset" to renew Australia's "sputtering" productivity growth.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an inexperienced FIFO mineworker sacked over her involvement in a dig site mix-up that cost her employer about $200,000 after the dumping of 54 ounces of gold.
A poultry processing worker sacked for refusing to vaccinate against COVID-19 has been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a judge found her former employer did not need to defend accusations of religious discrimination and consultation failures.
A Metcash coordinator working from home since she started her job during the coronavirus pandemic has won rare flexibility orders requiring the distribution giant to exempt her from a directive to return to the office, so she can minimise risks for her child with cystic fibrosis.
CFMEU construction division WA branch secretary Mick Buchan has won his first entry permit in a decade, following a FWC finding he meets the "fit and proper person" test five years after landing a fine for organising an illegal strike.
