WorkPac is seeking in a hearing this afternoon to convince the Federal Court to stay a MEU bid to declare same-job, same-pay protected rates for on-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine, until the FWC has settled the labour supplier's related SJSP dispute.
The FWC has ruled that Woodside's agreement does not prevent it sending offshore platform employees to work in Perth when a cyclone hits, but doubts remain about whether such a direction is lawful and reasonable.
A senior FWC member has identified a paid agent's apparent "lack of familiarity" with Commission processes as a reason for refusing a worker's request for representation to defend his dismissal for alleged time-theft.
The UWU says it has won pay rises of up to $30,000 a year for nearly 700 on-hire warehouse workers through five same-job, same-pay applications tellingly unresisted by employers, while the SDA is now embedding SJSP clauses in its supply chain agreements.
A court has backed Ernst & Young's ousting of a senior partner charged with assault over a bar confrontation, while on a warning for allegedly telling a colleague at a Christmas party he wanted to sleep with her and that most of his affairs were with married women.
The FWC has ordered Uber to reactivate a driver removed from its platform and for the parties to confer about lost pay, finding Uber's arguments "plainly ludicrous" and "misguided" and its IR Lead's evidence of little value.
The FWC has backed Woolworths' summary sacking of a 63-year-old manager found to have s-xually harassed a 29-year-old colleague when he sent her a red lipstick kiss emoji and texted "I love you".
On-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine who late last year won same-job, same-pay orders did not qualify for any portion of an annual bonus paid to the host's employees, the FWC has held, while separately finding the mine must pay the full incentive to its part-time direct employees, and those on unpaid leave or workers compensation.
The FWC has taken post-employment restraints into account in finding an underperforming sales manager's dismissal unfair, because while they may have been unenforceable they still reduced his prospects of getting a new job.
The FWC has rejected a wellness and body shaping centre's "absurd" suggestion that an employee abandoned her employment by failing to attend a single shift, when it had directed her not to attend work until it arranged a disciplinary meeting.
