A FWC full bench has acknowledged its "deference" to a tribunal member's factual findings in upholding the reinstatement of a stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to co-workers.
Legislation to ease the FWC's surging workload and introduce procurement arrangements enabling the Albanese Government to prefer suppliers with enterprise agreements has passed federal parliament less than a month after its introduction.
An insolvent NT "space base" has been ordered to pay $2.3 million to its former chief executive, ousted shortly before NASA launched three commercial rockets from its Cape York site.
The FWC has confirmed an electrical contractor's pursuit of a multi-employer deal does not displace its obligation to negotiate a single enterprise agreement sought by the ETU, granting the union a PABO after finding the company breached good faith obligations.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has rejected a bid by the former chief operations officer of a technology start-up incubator to use its small claims jurisdiction to boost his employee incentive scheme payment by $85,500.
A Federal Court judge has awarded costs against retailer H&M after expressing bemusement at its reasons for seeking to suppress seemingly "anodyne" details of an adverse action case brought by its former Australia/NZ HR leader.
In a significant ruling on applications to work from home, the FWC has agreed with a multinational company's claim that its payroll officer could not devote sufficient attention to "complex" tasks while caring for two children under five.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a nurse who attempted to start a competitor to an ANMF branch, finding that he called in sick and used the time to campaign, repeatedly complained about his colleagues and HR without foundation, and had been "indiscriminately rude".
The UWU has won a protected action ballot order despite an employer's intention to unilaterally put a proposed deal to a vote, and its insistence that the bargaining parties already agreed to it in-principle.
The House of Representatives has passed legislation to reduce the FWC's workload and introduce procurement arrangements enabling the Albanese Government to prefer suppliers with enterprise agreements, while the Greens have backed a motion to give the Senate just an hour to debate it before a final vote on Monday.
