A "unique situation" has given a FWC member the confidence to make a rare agreement variation order in circumstances where no common intention during bargaining could be established.
Consultation has begun on the 2028 closure of EnergyAustralia's Yallourn power station, as the just transition authority develops guidelines for its grant program.
An application to deal with a s-xual harassment dispute has been ruled invalid after the FWC found the alleged conduct a continuation of actions that began before new powers to intervene took effect.
In the latest public sector wage-cap fracture, Northern Territory public servants are weighing a 1% above-cap offer, in-line with a FWC recommendation, but still below the 15% NT police received.
The FWC has thrown out a real estate employee's claim that her employer unfairly summarily dismissed her for sending herself confidential information and setting up a competing business.
A FWC member has thrown out the dispute application of a disability support worker who showed an "abject disregard" for the tribunal and deliberately flouted its direction not to contact a former client.
A FWC member has criticised a union's "sneaky" application for a protected action ballot at one of nine interconnected workplaces as potentially "dragg[ing]" members into an industrial campaign "they did not authorise".
In a significant ruling on stand downs, a full bench has upheld a challenge to a hospital's refusal to pay a nurse who declined redeployment to another ward due to a work ban, but found on redetermination that the employer was otherwise entitled to withhold payment.
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has engaged a former long-serving FWC member to review the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes reforms.
In an "industry-first", a newly-approved union agreement covering editorial employees at news publications including Crikey and The Mandarin explicitly prohibits AI from replacing human employees and requires all output to have human oversight.
