The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal will take submissions until Monday on whether to delay the April 4 rollout of the contractor driver minimum payments order to January 1 next year and is considering hearing the case during the Easter break.
The conduct of former senior Fair Work Commission member Michael Lawler provides a reasonable basis to ask the Governor-General to remove him on the grounds of proven misbehaviour, according to a report tabled in Federal Parliament.
The CFMEU wants to examine the safety record of the building supply company Boral as part of the committal hearing of blackmail charges against the union's top two officials in Victoria.
A court has stopped a financial advisor from soliciting or providing services to his former employer's clients for up to six months until it rules on his alleged breach of restraint of trade provisions in his employment contract.
The FWC has ordered Toll Holdings Ltd to reinstate a worker it sacked for making inappropriate comments about Islam and the Taliban to an Afghani colleague.
An employer complied with its agreement when it substituted Victoria's newly-gazetted AFL Grand Final eve public holiday for the company's Christmas Eve public holiday, a full bench has ruled.
A tribunal has rejected claims that the sacking of two striking bus drivers constituted discrimination on the basis of their union activity, finding the law doesn't extend to unprotected action.
Jetstar Airways must reinstate a 60-year-old engineer it dismissed for driving a "tow tug" – usually used only in airports – on a public road to go and buy his lunch, the FWC ruled today.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of an employee for a relentless six-week email campaign in which he made a "deliberate and concerted effort" to discredit IR and ER employees after his demotion for "racial bullying" of an Indian-origin colleague he claimed was "smelly".
