The NTEU says Monash University will be liable for millions of dollars in backpay after the Federal Court today found it is required to pay casual tutors for scheduled consultations with students that don't count as part of work "associated" with tutoring.
The Federal Court has overturned a ruling that would have upset the commission-based pay arrangements for stockbrokers and financial advisors, finding an Ord Minnett advisor had been award-free.
In the first jurisdictional objection win for a worker claiming unfair deactivation, the FWC has ruled that Uber and Uber Eats are one and the same, finding a worker can pursue his application because he cumulatively performed delivery and driving work for Uber for more than six months.
In a crucial test case to build on the Closing Loopholes Act's bolstered rights for union delegates, the meat union is seeking to establish that its shop stewards are entitled to address inductions, post on company noticeboards and conduct member meetings in lunch rooms at a massive Teys abattoir near Brisbane.
The ETU says same-job, same-pay orders it is seeking at Chevron's Barrow Island LNG facility in WA could lift wages of labour hire workers by a mammoth $80,000 a year.
A former ATO director who claims sustained bullying and harassment forced her to move to the AEC has failed to establish it constitutes a dismissal, after she used the Public Service Act's voluntary transfer provisions.
The AWU has withdrawn its majority support application for Rio Tinto's Paraburdoo iron ore mines, after the company revealed it had 200 more workers than understood by the union, leaving it without a majority.
One of the country's leading employment barristers has been fined $20,000 and ordered to undertake counselling after being found to have s-xually touched a female solicitor at a firm's Christmas party.
The FWC has ruled that a law firm unfairly dismissed an underpaid paralegal working remotely from the Philippines, after it previously rejected the firm's claim that it had engaged her as a contractor.
McDonald's has failed to fend off a landmark supported bargaining authorisation compelling its SA franchisees to bargain with the SDA for a multi-deal on behalf of thousands of low-paid workers at across more than 50 restaurants.
