The FWC has endorsed AGL's grounds for rejecting a customer service consultant's flexible work request, but nevertheless ordered it to conduct a trial requiring her to attend the office for four hours on just 12 occasions over six months so she can continue to care for her incontinent, dementia-affected mother.
New South Wales should set up a standalone labour hire licensing scheme within 12 months that draws on the strengths of the Queensland and Victorian regimes and would give it the best opportunity to influence a long-promised national scheme, according to a new McKell Institute report.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged its "deference" to a tribunal member's factual findings in upholding the reinstatement of a stevedore accused of telling a colleague he put his c-ck in their Subway sandwich, while already on a warning for showing pictures of bikini-clad female colleagues to co-workers.
An insolvent NT "space base" has been ordered to pay $2.3 million to its former chief executive, ousted shortly before NASA launched three commercial rockets from its Cape York site.
The FWC has confirmed an electrical contractor's pursuit of a multi-employer deal does not displace its obligation to negotiate a single enterprise agreement sought by the ETU, granting the union a PABO after finding the company breached good faith obligations.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has rejected a bid by the former chief operations officer of a technology start-up incubator to use its small claims jurisdiction to boost his employee incentive scheme payment by $85,500.
A Federal Court judge has awarded costs against retailer H&M after expressing bemusement at its reasons for seeking to suppress seemingly "anodyne" details of an adverse action case brought by its former Australia/NZ HR leader.
In a significant ruling on applications to work from home, the FWC has agreed with a multinational company's claim that its payroll officer could not devote sufficient attention to "complex" tasks while caring for two children under five.
The UWU has won a protected action ballot order despite an employer's intention to unilaterally put a proposed deal to a vote, and its insistence that the bargaining parties already agreed to it in-principle.
An unregistered union representing Sydney Airport workers has filed a majority support determination application to bring a contractor to the bargaining table, while negotiations are also underway with two other Kingsford Smith employers.
