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NSW nurses and midwives have defied a tribunal's anti-strike orders, telling its members the State Government has left them with "no choice but to fight".
Wharfies at Qube's bulk and general ports plan to step up protected industrial action with bans and limitations this week in Melbourne, Port Kembla and Brisbane, while warning that strikes are imminent.
The HSU will today lodge a Federal Court bid to place its Victorian No 1 branch into administration, as embattled branch secretary Diana Asmar resists calls to stand down and seeks to turn the heat back on the union's national executive in another case heading to court tomorrow.
A FWC full bench led by president Adam Hatcher has overturned a two-month suspension of ETU strikes against Transgrid, taking the opportunity to lay out the correct approach to assessing safety commitments when considering whether protected industrial action should be stopped or suspended.
A shareholding employee sacked by his "toxic" family business for raising his voice at a salesperson has won compensation but missed out on reinstatement due in part to his court bid to wind up the company.
The FWC's clampdown on paid agents has begun after president Adam Hatcher accepted recommendations that include considering representation and disclosing fees before cases get out of the starting gates, while also highlighting "broad support" for new laws to establish a registration scheme featuring a fit and proper person test.
The High Court has refused to hear a major hospitality group's challenge to a finding that a FWC bench did not show bias when it raised concerns about an already-approved agreement ultimately revealed to have been voted up by three venue managers and a payroll employee not covered by it.
The FWC has noted the proliferation of a business model serving as a "risk shifting exercise" for host employers, in rejecting a labour hire worker's unfair dismissal claim.
A security company has been ordered to pay more than $40,000 compensation to a former manager after the FWC found its owner/chief executive pressured him to sign a new contract with higher sales targets and broader constraint clauses and then told him to "finish up" when he refused.
The FWC has backed Ambulance Victoria's decision to transfer a "socially inept" paramedic 350 kilometres away after an investigator found he bullied a female colleague.
