A rope access technician has been ordered to pay $125,000 in costs after pursuing a failed underpayments and discrimination case described by the judge as "a textbook example of launching an action without reasonable cause".
BHP says it has contingency plans in place to ensure continuity of power supply to its Pilbara mines and ports, as 60 workers who operate its remote electricity grid threaten what it says is its WA iron ore operation's first protected action this century.
The RBA had no obligation to pay a senior employee during a seven-month period when he claimed to be "ready and willing" to work as long as it did not involve consecutive days, "high stress" assignments or meeting with HR, the FWC has found.
In the wake of the ABC's unlawful sacking of journalist Antoinette Lattouf, union members at the national broadcaster are demanding that a new enterprise agreement enshrine workers' rights to report on subjects regardless of their political opinions or cultural backgrounds.
ASX-listed services giant Ventia has achieved a "complete metamorphosis" of a freshly-acquired company's agreement by varying its terms instead of making a new one, in an application that posed an "Aristotelian form and substance problem" for the FWC.
A small business and its owner have been hit with fines, compensation and damages totalling more than $300,000 after the "deplorable" exploitation of a young worker with an intellectual disability who went almost two years without being paid.
In a significant decision on the FWC's arbitral powers, a full bench has provided further "clarification" of its ruling in a dispute after an employer "disobeyed" its finding that seven workers should be reclassified at a higher level.
Launceston Council's chief executive says he cannot thank the ASU enough for its role in negotiating an Australian-first in-principle deal enshrining a four-day work week with "five-day wages", further declaring that he would like the model enshrined in law "right across this country".
BHP's coal mining and in-house labour hire entities are seeking special leave to challenge the Full Federal Court ruling that upheld same-job, same-pay orders the FWC made for the resources titan's Bowen Basin mines.
