The first test case for the delegates' rights provisions legislated by the Albanese Government is set to be heard in the Federal Court in Brisbane next week.
FWC has rejected a registered nurse's claim that an aged care home general manager bullied her by reducing her hours and allegedly banning her from picking up extra shifts when she complained of "burnout".
In a case sent straight to a full bench by President Adam Hatcher, the FWC has rejected an aged care employer's argument that an expired agreement should be axed because it is "unfair" to nurses who would better off under the award.
In another FWC case blighted by AI, a senior member has lamented the time wasted by tribunal staff and an employer as a result of a self-represented worker's citing of three supposedly pertinent decisions, two of them irrelevant and one that "simply did not exist".
In a judgment confirming workers can seek to recoup underpayments through the Consumer Law, the Federal Court has found Domino's responsible for short-changing workers by misleading no fewer than 300 franchise operators into applying old SDA-negotiated agreements instead of the award.
In a significant judgment on what constitutes "automation", the Federal Court has ruled that stevedore DP World is not required to consult extensively over plans to have drivers control quayside cranes remotely, because it does not represent "a significant change to the mode of operation" under the terms of its agreement.
A FWC full bench has made it clear that correctly identifying an employer is not a "jurisdictional precondition" when pursuing a general protections dismissal dispute.
Long haul Qantas pilots are about to vote on whether to back protected action for the first time since the airline grounded its fleet and locked out workers in 2011, as they seek improvements to a rejected offer and the Flying Kangaroo prepares to roll out its crucial Project Sunrise non-stop flights.
A project manager who argued that putting a Ferrari badge on a Toyota "doesn't make it a Ferrari" can pursue an adverse action case after the FWC found his employer labelled him an independent contractor merely to facilitate his request for his pay to go into a trust account.
Ahead of McDonald's' first bargaining meeting to negotiate a national deal with unions, a full Federal Court has dismissed an employer-led review bid that sought to challenge the FWC's approach to making supported bargaining authorisations that covered its franchisees.
