A FWC member has criticised a union's "sneaky" application for a protected action ballot at one of nine interconnected workplaces as potentially "dragg[ing]" members into an industrial campaign "they did not authorise".
In a significant ruling on stand downs, a full bench has upheld a challenge to a hospital's refusal to pay a nurse who declined redeployment to another ward due to a work ban, but found on redetermination that the employer was otherwise entitled to withhold payment.
In an "industry-first", a newly-approved union agreement covering editorial employees at news publications including Crikey and The Mandarin explicitly prohibits AI from replacing human employees and requires all output to have human oversight.
The FWC has warned the CFMEU against a "burger with the lot" approach to pressing its objections to a proposed construction industry deal, after rejecting an employer's complaints that the union had no involvement in bargaining and has no members covered.
A highly-paid Commonwealth Bank executive has told the FWC he did not deserve to lose his job over accusations that he shared customer information over the popular WeChat Chinese messaging platform and misled the bank's investigators.
A DEI specialist found by the FWC to have been left with no option but to resign claims power company Endeavour Energy directed her to sideline an Indigenous man she selected to chair a NAIDOC week event, so that its head of organisational development could host it to "raise her professional profile".
Two food delivery service founders have won more than $150,000 in compensation after their sacking by a company chair whose "total disregard" for procedural fairness made it unlikely he would be swayed by HR advice.
An Amazon on-hire worker has been reinstated and awarded almost $15,000 after a FWC member speculated that her threat to go to the tribunal over the reaction to announcing her pregnancy prompted her employer to "circle the proverbial wagons".
The FWC has upheld Uber's deactivation of a long-serving driver after multiple complaints alleging drug- or alcohol-affected dangerous driving, as his unsafe practices breached his services agreement and he failed to mend his ways after repeated warnings.
