Employers who pressure migrant workers into breaching their temporary visa conditions face criminal charges and increased fines under changes soon to be introduced by the Albanese Government.
The Minns Government has announced a 4% pay offer for NSW public sector workers, plus a 0.5% superannuation boost, along with the creation of an interest-based bargaining taskforce headed by former FWC deputy president Anna Booth and former State IRC president Roger Boland.
A judge has rejected a business owner's claim of unlawful sacking because he repeatedly accused his co-owner brother of bullying and conflicts of interest, finding their "poisonous" relationship unrelated to his dismissal for ignoring a direction to stay away from the office while under investigation for allegedly harassing employees.
The AFP has won the right to be represented by an external lawyer in a "complex" anti-bullying case involving at least 18 witnesses to be heard by the FWC in a fortnight.
A welcome ceremony for new FWC member Sharon Durham has heard the Queensland IR Minister's former chief of staff discovered IR was her thing at 17 years old while working as a services union print room assistant and learnt the 80/20 bargaining rule at the plumbers union.
In what is believed to be the first interlocutory injunction to provide union entry for discussion purposes, the Federal Court has ordered a project head contractor to permit ETU organisers to access labour hire linesworkers on a 900km, $2.2 billion interstate power transmission interconnector.
The CFMMEU's mining and energy division is taking credit for BHP's revelation today that it will have to backpay almost 30,000 workers in its Australian operations it has shortchanged since 2010, with its share set to cost it $431 million.
A foreign exchange dealer has come up empty-handed after he overturned his dismissal on appeal, with the FWC on re-hearing the case taking little time to reject his claim that the "punishment did not fit the crime".
As the NSW Minns Labor Government gears up for a major expansion of long service leave entitlements that will include portability for gig workers, IR Minister Sophie Cotsis says it has secured a record fine against Mosaic Brands for systemic LSL underpayments.
A FWC full bench has rejected a farmworker's bid to scrap casual overtime award rates she claims prompted an employer to sideline her during a peak harvest period because she reached the maximum ordinary hours.
