A senior Queensland Building and Construction Commission inspector with decades of experience as a police officer has lost his bid to establish that the state's Office of IR wrongly failed to shortlist him for a job in its Labour Hire Compliance Unit.
The FWC, in rejecting Sydney Trains' application for an interim s424 order to suspend or terminate protected action by the RTBU and CEPU, has rejected the precedent put forward by the employer as supporting its case.
The FWC has this week approved a new agreement for the Australia Council of Social Service that lifts pay by the 4.6% rise in award minimum rates, provides new paid cultural and First Nations leave and enables employees to take a substitute public holiday for the January 26 "Invasion Day".
A proposed new agreement for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition provides substantial upfront pay rises and entitlements to five days paid climate disaster leave, 30 days paid gender affirmation leave and 12% super contributions, while it replaces workplace breastfeeding provisions with "chestfeeding" rights.
It will rarely be appropriate for self-represented workers to run class actions, a Federal Court judge has held while moving to declass a representative proceeding brought by a Wilson Security guard on behalf of FIFO colleagues at the North-West Shelf gas project.
IR Minister Tony Burke has outlined some of the entitlements he would like the FWC to include in the minimum conditions it prescribes for gig workers, while emphasising that it will be up to the tribunal to decide what's in and what's out, but a leading IR academic who developed a state labor government's blueprint for labour hire regulation says the new Government's approach will provide "a limited solution".
A workplace tribunal member has philosophised about the sun and moon in considering whether to extend time for an unfair dismissal claim filed three days late.
A UK tribunal has awarded a Christian factory-worker £22,000 ($39,000) in compensation, after finding on appeal that his dismissal for refusing to remove a crucifix necklace constituted indirect discrimination.
The FWC is set to pull the shutters down on what academics hailed as its "bold" decision to give more than four million award-covered workers access to unpaid leave and twice as much annual leave on half-pay in response to pandemic uncertainties.
