The Federal Court will weigh into a stoush between Qantas and the AIPA over whether the union is unreasonably withholding permission to allocate newly-recruited pilots to its A380 super-jumbos, with the FWC staying a similar dispute over the airline's ability to appoint them if it already has enough bids from its current cohort of more senior flight crew.
The WA Court of Appeal has thrown out a nursing assistant's challenge to a judge's rejection of her $750,000 defamation claim, which she brought against her employer because a registered nurse accused her of saying "I hate working with Africans".
In a rare instance of the "power imbalance" between employer and employee being reversed, the FWC has found that a worker hired to help a migrant family earn a business visa by running a regional bakery unilaterally reduced his hours without cutting his pay.
A leading labour law academic has told an IR conference that expanding the FWC's power to arbitrate agreement negotiations will be "the single biggest challenge" posed by the Secure Jobs changes, while the head of a peak state employer group's law firm says it is the "Damoclesean threat of the sword" that will bring people to the table.
A HR manager has failed to block a general protections claim despite insisting the employer did not know that a supervisor with no authority to do so had texted the worker to collect his tools and "see you [in] court if u want".
A manager has won an anti-suit injunction against his employer after it responded to his Federal Circuit and Family Court case seeking unpaid statutory entitlements by filing a cross-claim in a lower court.
A leading IR law academic says that high casual employment is an entrenched "cultural problem" that needs a solution and that there is likely to be an "explosion" in sham contracting if the Government fails to address last year's High Court rulings in Jamsek and Personnel Contracting.
The Coalition has given notice of amendments to provisions in the Protecting Worker Entitlements legislation that would allow employees to authorise employers to make payroll deductions that vary from time-to-time, alleging it is a "pretty transparent attempt" by the Albanese Government to address the decline in union membership.
The FWC has found that although a worker's accidental removal of tools from a mine site provided a valid reason, his sacking was unfair because his labour hire employer failed to investigate the incident and didn't give him proper notice, or the opportunity to respond.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has denied that the adverse action case initiated by the former chief-of-staff to Independent Federal MP Monique Ryan prompted more funding for electorate staff in the Federal Budget.
