The FWC is seeking feedback on its provisional view that it should order Secure Parking to reinstate a full-time compliance manager to a part-time position, finding Japanese-owned company unfairly dismissed him during a cost-cutting redundancy round.
The FWC has acceded to BHP's request for it to bring almost 140 of its BHP OS on-hire workers in-house, to reduce the workload involved with managing multiple enterprise agreements and address "the potential for disharmony in the workforce".
The SDA has gladly dropped multiple bids for supported bargaining at McDonald's stores and franchise outlets after the FWC granted the fast food giant a nationwide single interest authorisation, clearing the way for voluntary multi-employer bargaining.
The NSW Court of Appeal has overturned orders blocking a law firm from acting for a rival practice's former employed solicitor, in a decision finding that information imparted while training and mentoring a junior lawyer did not justify a restraint on his future employer.
In a case testing the extent to which employers can withhold pay during protected industrial action, the Federal Court today conducted a hearing into the AWU's claim that Chevron unlawfully deducted loading and allowances from workers during stoppages at its WA facilities.
A worker has resigned from Melbourne's St Vincent's Hospital following a FWC finding that her employer can continue with a disciplinary process, after police charged her over a protest at an Israeli restaurant and a doxxing organisation revealed her identity.
Unions say 100% of their Inpex members have voted in favour of taking protected industrial action, weeks after they rejected the company's unilateral offer.
Mining unions have asked Fortescue to begin bargaining for replacement deals for two barebones non-union agreements covering iron ore workers at four Pilbara sites.
A casino manager did not mean to suggest that Crown Melbourne would use its CCTV coverage to "get" a worker if she challenged its refusal of her flexible work application to care for her sick mother, when he pointedly talked about her being under constant surveillance, a tribunal has found.
The FWC has awarded $10,000 compensation to a sacked mine site cleaner who said he had been too drunk to remember skinny-dipping after being "egged on" by colleagues at a Christmas party in their accommodation village.
