Some 350 maintenance and sustainment workers at the Australian Submarine Corporation's Adelaide headquarters have succeeded in their year-long campaign for pay parity with their Western Australian colleagues, winning an upfront average increase of 18.5%.
A FWC full bench has quashed the approval of a company's CEPU-lodged agreement, found to have been voted up by two workers before it was used to cover AMWU members in a process "entirely lacking in authenticity and moral authority".
The PSA has lost its challenge to a NSW IRC decision said to have "wide ranging" implications for union delegates using workplace emails to communicate with union lawyers, with a special constable facing dismissal for disclosing confidential information to inform its application for a new award.
Early case law in the new unfair termination jurisdiction for transport workers will determine the interpretation of the $175,000 income limit for applicants, according to FWC president Adam Hatcher, who confirmed the Commission had been consulted "in advance" of it being set and pointed out potential pitfalls.
The FWC has declined to interfere with the ATO's decision to refuse a worker absent more than 248 days in a year access to unpaid personal leave, observing that its enterprise agreement did not provide an "unfettered" right to such time off.
The AMWU has after more than two years succeeded in gaining FWC approval to expand its eligibility rules so it can get a toehold in BHP's internal labour hire operation.
The FWC has allowed a 79-day-late unfair dismissal application after accepting an aged care worker relied on the advice of an immigration lawyer to initially contest her sacking through two health regulators.
In a case demonstrating the limits of restraint clauses, a superior court has voided unreasonable constraints a wealth management company owned by US private equity funds sought to enforce when three of its former Melbourne advisors moved to a rival operation owned by Liechtenstein's royal family.
NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor says after a decade of pay caps depriving the tribunal of the capacity to ensure incomes did not fall behind in real terms, all submissions informing a review of its wage fixing principles are calling for change.
The FWC has ruled that an employee on workers' compensation leave is not eligible for anti-bullying protection because she was absent and not performing work when the alleged bullying occurred.
