In a ruling as to what constitutes "physical effort", a court has found that opening or removing curtains and straps securing a truck's load did not qualify a driver for an extra allowance under a transport industry award.
The aviation services company Aerocare is pushing ahead with a hotly-contested application in the Federal Court to overturn the Fair Work Commission's rejection of a proposed new enterprise agreement.
A roulette supervisor has failed to challenge the rejection of her claim that a casino's failure to offer overtime amounted to constructive dismissal, but a full Federal Court has quashed a $30,000 costs order against her after finding it was not unreasonable to ignore a $7000 settlement offer.
An FWC full bench has made a rare security of costs order against a social worker it calculated has "little prospect" of being granted permission to appeal a rejected unfair dismissal claim.
Woolworths says it will train head contractors on their IR obligations, require all cleaning contractors to use a third-party payroll system and increase its auditing, after an FWO investigation revealed the retailer contributed to a culture of non-compliance in its Tasmanian cleaning supply chain.
The FWC has ordered a council to reinstate a beach inspector summarily sacked after fixing air-conditioning units that heated instead of cooled its new vehicles, taking it to task over a deeply flawed investigative process that belied the HR and legal expertise available to it.
The High Court has today accepted that courts can make orders to stop union officials seeking or accepting payments from their unions towards penalties imposed for unlawful conduct.
The Tasmanian ALP has announced it will introduce industrial manslaughter laws and consider a labour hire licensing scheme if it wins the March 3 state election.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says that unions doubt that the current system for equal pay cases will ever be able to address under-valuation of work in feminised industries.
