A court has taken an employer to task for making false representations to interns who were told their terms and conditions complied with minimum standards.
A former international manager for listed health products company Blackmores who sought more than $140,000 in compensation has failed to prove his employer dismissed him because of redundancy or that its HR manager and others misled him by claiming he was not entitled to severance pay.
The FWC has refused to issue anti-bullying orders against a high-profile Adelaide restaurant because it implemented positive measures to tackle unreasonable behaviour.
Tug operator Svitzer has moved to a single national agreement, after the FWC rejected objections from one of three unions that the company had unfairly selected the employees to be covered.
The trial of the ACCC's secondary boycott case against the CFMEU construction and general division's Victorian branch has been delayed until September, to avoid clashing with the controversial blackmail charges against union leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon.
FWC accepts PC report as submission rather than evidence; Heerey report due at end of month; Patrick talks continuing; Productivity portfolio dropped in Turnbull's reshuffle; and MUA tells members not to respond to FWO overtures.
Roy Morgan Research Ltd took adverse action against a director who sought to return to work after maternity leave when it refused her request for flexible working hours and instead brought forward her redundancy, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
An FWC full bench has quashed a decision that used the wrong maritime award as the BOOT benchmark for a new agreement covering coastal cargo vessels, but dismissed a challenge to a senior manager's appointment as a bargaining representative.
A Melbourne hotelier took adverse action against an events manager when she took sick leave to manage her anxiety and sought legal advice, the Federal Circuit Court has found.
A court has found a former employee guilty of contempt and ordered her to pay indemnity costs after she breached undertakings not to allege the employer's managing director was a bully in an unhealthy and dangerous workplace.
