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Tardy FWC advice no excuse for late application: FWC

A worker has lost his ability to lodge a general protections application challenging his sacking after waiting more than three weeks to hear back from the FWC's Workplace Advice Services program, with the tribunal refusing to grant an extension.


Potential weekend work aversion reduces redundancy: FWC

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.


No merit in AAT member's "double-dipping" case: Court

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..


Thin blue line risked red line in WFH case: FWC

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.


Former union leader behind entry stand-off: Court

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.


September deadline for feedback on non-competes

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.


PC seeking views on draft roundtable recommendations

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.


$30K for mineworker sacked over gold muddle

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.


Indemnity costs against anti-vax worker

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.


Disease risks outweigh back-to-office directive: FWC

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.


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