A FWC full bench has taken the extraordinary step of quashing a five-year-old decision that left thousands of BP employees uncovered by an enterprise agreement while the company remained unaware it had been terminated.
In echoes of the last round of contested negotiations, the FSU is urging Reserve Bank employees to reject a unilateral offer that it warns will prompt a "brain drain" to more lucrative public and private sector roles.
The FWC has ruled that the MUA is not entitled to cover production operators at a West Australian saltworks because their duties are not tied closely enough to stevedoring, and refused to order the company to continue to include the union in bargaining.
In a sign of the FWC's growing frustration with not just the number of applications flowing across its desk but the prevalence of applicants dropping off the map, a member has lamented a worker's "disconcerting" failure to engage with the tribunal and the concomitant waste of valuable "time and resources".
The FWC has held that Amazon's "discretionary" payments towards employees' public transport and parking costs should be included in high-income threshold calculations, finding an account manager earned too much to qualify for unfair dismissal protection.
In the first fully contested Federal Court case to consider new s-xual harassment protections in the Fair Work Act, a judge has relied heavily on a FIFO apprentice's dinnertime revelation to her parents that her supervisor asked her for a "bl-w job" to find he s-xually harassed her.
The Victorian working from home legislation "aims to strike a balance" between making remote work available to more workers and the "operational realities" of businesses, partly by creating a comprehensive "reasonableness" test, Premier Jacinta Allan told State Parliament today.
ARN Media Limited will pay sacked KIIS FM broadcaster Kyle Sandilands more than $12 million and provide further support of $1.5 million to settle his general protections and breach of contract claims, but the parallel case brought by his co-host, Jackie 'O' Henderson, remains on foot, it told the ASX today.
A recruiter has failed to win $50,000 compensation from Bluescope Steel for allegedly sacking him following his complaints about being bullied by its HR team, after a judge took into account that he had previously lied to the FWC and "embellished" his résumé.
