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A FWO bid to piggyback a compliance notice breach case with underpayment orders has been upended by a court, which observed that merging the two pathways would "undermine" the Fair Work Act's integrity.
A Uniting Church reverend who received monthly payslips, superannuation contributions and Jobkeeper COVID-19 payments was not an employee capable of challenging his sacking for opposing same-s-x marriage, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has upheld a finding that Qube Ports cannot retrospectively vary expired agreements that no longer cover it in an attempt to avoid a major lawsuit over deductions of "gap" payments from up to 1000 wharfies' remuneration.
A judge has rejected a sales director's claim that his employer sacked him within hours of him telling his manager he intended to take unpaid parental leave on the birth of his two surrogate children.
An accountant has won a rare interim anti-bullying order after the FWC agreed her employer "inappropriately" bypassed her lawyers by directly emailing a request that she attend a disciplinary meeting the following day.
A new FWC member has credited his mother-of-seven's "second-to-none" conciliation and mediation skills for his early-age lessons in conflict resolution, while a second new recruit has expressed his appreciation for his parents giving him every chance in life, lamenting that he "probably didn't take many of them".
In the latest of a rash of significant rulings on protected action ballots, the FWC's national practice leader for bargaining has insisted a bus company provide employee details despite its "uncommon concession" to rely on a union's database alone to develop a roll of voters.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged a railway station manager's "ambitious" claim that a member went "wholly outside" the available options when she upheld his sacking for failing to disclose serious criminal charges.
The FWO is prosecuting franchisor Bakers Delight for failing to prevent its franchisees from underpaying workers, after the head office discovered the wage theft and failed to address it.
RBA Governor Philip Lowe, who earned the ire of unions and some in the Albanese Government with his repeated warnings about the risks of a wage-price spiral, is set to be replaced at the end of his term by his deputy, Michele Bullock, who will be the first woman to lead the central bank.
