An FWC full bench has today acceded to the NT Government's request to overturn the approval of its main public sector agreement that covers 13,000 employees, after it lodged the wrong version of the deal with the tribunal.
Victorian Attorney-General and workplace safety minister Jill Hennessy says that new legislation to create a criminal offence of industrial manslaughter could extend to some workplace-linked suicides and to diseases such as silicosis.
The FWC has thrown out a teacher's anti-bullying application after he withdrew his acceptance of settlement terms that included relocation to a new workplace and anger management support and sought to re-activate his case.
The FWC has knocked back an application for orders preventing three union officials entering the Ichthys LNG project, as well as the organisation of combined union meetings on site.
A former NSW Police sergeant is alleging that the NT Police discriminated against him on the basis of irrelevant criminal records when it rejected his job application and permanently excluded him from re-applying.
A mineworker stood down by a Rio Tinto subsidiary after he won more than $600,000 in damages for serious injuries sustained at work has won an adverse action claim in the Federal Court.
A tribunal has warned employers that they must not only have anti-discrimination policies in place but must also ensure they are "communicated effectively", after finding an Aboriginal economic development company vicariously liable for race discrimination.
The Northern Territory's CLP Government has asked Unions NT to relinquish a lease over a valuable property in the Darwin CBD after the completion of a hotly-contested inquiry.
Three of the four young men who died during the former Labor government’s home insulation rollout had not completed training in ceiling insulation installation, the royal commission into the stimulus program has heard, while the head of the inquiry has warned counsel not to cover old ground.
