CFMEU construction division WA branch secretary Mick Buchan has won his first entry permit in a decade, following a FWC finding he meets the "fit and proper person" test five years after landing a fine for organising an illegal strike.
A HSU senior industrial officer who claimed a branch secretary s-xually harassed her has discontinued her adverse action and s-x discrimination action that had been due to surface in the FWC yesterday.
Uber's "farcical", "inane" and "mind-numbing" response to a driver's attempt to challenge it booting him off the platform for alleged misconduct did not satisfactorily explain why he filed his unfair deactivation application 12 days' late, the FWC has found.
An employer remained in the dark about the extent of a worker's acute mental health crisis after she attempted to take her own life, and reasonably concluded that she had abandoned her employment, the Fair Work Commission has found.
An expert FWC panel headed by President Adam Hatcher has decried the Albanese Government's "proposed usurpation" of the Commission's role while rejecting an ASU request to delay consideration of gender-undervaluation changes in a major award.
A Federal Circuit and Family Court judge has urged the Albanese Government to "substantially" increase penalties for failing to engage with compliance notices and to empower the FWO to seek the removal of directors, to prevent recidivism and deter directors and companies from ignoring notices.
A teacher accused of assaulting three students has secured a delay in his FWC unfair dismissal proceedings, after a local court adjourned his criminal hearing
The MEAA has rejected an ABC deal that would have provided a 3% interim pay rise while prohibiting employees from taking industrial action for six-months while they push for 5.5% pay rises each year and a guarantee that AI will not replace human workers.
The Federal Court has today refused to seek to punish for contempt Nine Media companies, editors, in-house lawyers and journalists, after their newspapers failed to take down articles naming some of those involved in a campaign against the ABC's employment of radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a school lab assistant who "forcefully" slapped the hand of a 15-year-old student who had been flicking pieces of a bull's eye in a science class, finding it hard to imagine when such "violence" would be appropriate "in this day and age".
