Woolworths claims Friday's Federal Court underpayments ruling will cost it an extra $470 million before tax and "will require significant and widespread changes to accepted retail practice".
The FWC has reinstated a dairy worker and translated its ruling into his Rohingya language to ensure he understands the concerns that led to his sacking, while also warning the employer it needs to better manage the challenges of a diverse workforce.
A tribunal has awarded a worker s-xually harassed and assaulted by her boss $140,000 in damages, based on the nature of the conduct and the continued "profound and significant detrimental impact" on her quality of life, plus $10,000 in aggravated damages and $26,500 in costs.
The FWC has found a former CFMEU construction division official "removed" by administrator Mark Irving KC is fit to hold office in a union and act as a bargaining representative, five months after it cleared him to take up a part-time role with the ETU.
The union representing coal mining staff and supervisors has welcomed today's full Federal Court endorsement of the FWC's authorisation of multi-employer bargaining with three coal-mining giants, even though it has now chosen to pursue single enterprise deals.
The FWC has found an employer that accused a carpenter of submitting a "fake doctor's certificate" complied with the small business fair dismissal code when it summarily sacked him.
An employment service worker caught out by a legal technicality has won more time to challenge his sacking, which he links to an allegedly "inappropriate" workplace conversation after a Sorry Day event.
The QNMU is backing "in the strongest terms" a Crisafulli Liberal Government pay offer said to retain a nation-leading edge for most nurses and midwives by boosting their "earning potential", while public school teachers have accepted a Queensland IRC recommendation to pause industrial action for a month.
Former ABC presenter Antoinette Lattouf says the Federal Court should order the broadcaster to pay her a fine of between $300,000 and $350,000 for unlawfully sacking her for reasons including her political opinion about the Gaza war and breaching its enterprise agreement, but the ABC says it should have to cough up no more than $56,300.
A new same-job, same-pay order will deliver pay rises of up to 29% to on-hire manufacturing workers at Nissan Casting's Melbourne plant, according to the AMWU.
