A senior FWC member has used an experienced Jetstar aircraft maintenance engineer's unsuccessful challenge to his sacking to emphasise that "hazing" is no longer considered "funny", after he left two apprentices stranded six metres in the air under a Boeing 787 wing while he went to lunch.
The RTBU will argue in the first right to disconnect dispute hearing that an on-call allowance fails to adequately compensate a worker and the FWC should find reasonable his refusal to answer or make calls on his days off.
A full Federal Court has confirmed that class actions cannot start until members are correctly identified but can "transmogrify", after Adero Law conceded the definition contained in a store managers' claim against The Reject Shop left the group "empty".
The FWC has ruled that an employer needed to demonstrate that a long-serving worker intentionally stole sweets she consumed at work to justify her summary dismissal, and ordered $24,000 in compensation.
A senior FWC member has used a transcription service worker's unfair deactivation application to examine and narrow the legislative definition of "digital labour platform", finding an online business does not fall into the category because jobs are allocated by humans rather than algorithms.
A FWC presidential member has blasted the "exceptionally and embarrassingly poor" service provided by a law firm held responsible for filing a garbage collector's general protections matter 125 days' late.
A Federal Court judge will this month deal with intersecting adverse action and breach of contract claims from former KIIS FM co-hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson, with the latter also accusing the network of failing to protect her from alleged bullying and psychosocial hazards following her previous complaints.
The Federal Court has slugged a wharfie almost $10,000 for telling a colleague "You'll end up dead dog" if he kept escorting on-hire workers through a lawful picket during a strike at Fremantle port in 2021.
The first lawful industrial action in more than 30 years in the Pilbara will begin next week, with ETU members on a crucial BHP power network launching work bans.
The High Court has today refused BHP's bid to overturn a full Federal Court ruling that upheld same-job, same-pay orders against its OS in-house labour hire subsidiaries.
