A HR manager opportunistically accused a disgruntled employee of leaking confidential information to "put the blow-torch" to him over his dogged pursuit of underpayments, a court has found.
In a judgment that will ripple through a FWC case considering the way homecare, disability and social workers are paid for shifts immediately before or after sleepovers, the Federal Court has rejected FWO arguments that penalty rates should apply.
On-hire workers employed by BHP's in-house labour provider and its external suppliers have today won same-job, same-pay orders, after a FWC full bench rejected arguments that the service provider exemption and a "fair and reasonable" requirement stood in the way.
The NTEU says Monash University will be liable for millions of dollars in backpay after the Federal Court today found it is required to pay casual tutors for scheduled consultations with students that don't count as part of work "associated" with tutoring.
The Federal Court has overturned a ruling that would have upset the commission-based pay arrangements for stockbrokers and financial advisors, finding an Ord Minnett advisor had been award-free.
The ETU says same-job, same-pay orders it is seeking at Chevron's Barrow Island LNG facility in WA could lift wages of labour hire workers by a mammoth $80,000 a year.
CPSU Victoria has secured the first public sector multi-employer agreement under the Secure Jobs provisions, providing 3% annual increases over four years to 1800 workers in State arts and cultural institutions.
The FWC has listed the ANMF's nurses and midwives work value case for a conference early next month as the union and employers attempt to resolve outstanding issues, such as any phase-in arrangements, without the need for a full contested hearing.
In a significant ruling on calculating academics' payments for time spent marking course work, a Federal Court has found the FWO's compliance notice served on an allegedly underpaying private university "bad at law".
