The MEU says its members at a Peabody underground coal mine near Wollongong have been "blindsided" by the the company's week-long lockout of 160 mineworkers, saying it is a disproportionate response to limited protected action.
Rio Tinto is pushing the FWC to reject the AWU's majority support application for the company's Paraburdoo iron ore mines, arguing that the union doesn't have the numbers and has failed to clearly define the scope of its proposed agreement.
The FWC has cleared the way for a project manager to pursue his unfair dismissal claim after finding his retention payments do not push him above the high-income threshold as they are not "earnings".
In a significant ruling on calculating academics' payments for time spent marking course work, a Federal Court has found the FWO's compliance notice served on an allegedly underpaying private university "bad at law".
A judge has criticised Aldi for adopting an "unnecessarily technical position" against a self-represented worker but ultimately rejected his bid for a six-month extension to file a general protections claim, after finding he falsified medical evidence.
The FWC has ordered a health and safety representative to stop organising unprotected strikes for workers maintaining Sydney's trains, after finding no evidence that they faced immediate dangers from an increase in night shifts.
The FWC has closely considered its new discretion to overlook minor procedural or technical shortcomings in making of agreements before finally rejecting a proposed deal it "reluctantly" declined to wave through initially because the employer failed to explain negative aspects for some workers.
A schoolteacher "absurdly" sacked for yelling at students has won maximum compensation, after a FWC member retreated from his initial order to reinstate her.
A $400,000-a-year company lawyer's adverse action case has fallen at the first hurdle after the FWC found him bound by a settlement deed despite claims that its terms had not been finalised.
The FWC has rejected a real estate agent's claim that his employer fooled him into resigning, finding its move to enforce post-employment restraints after he joined a competitor did not retrospectively turn a mutually agreed separation into an unfair dismissal.
