A labour supplier has failed to win costs against the AWU, after claiming that a PALM scheme worker had not authorised the union to file an unfair dismissal claim that it ultimately discontinued.
The FWC has cleared a general manager's late unfair sacking claim to proceed after a law firm's graduate employee advised him to file it in the wrong jurisdiction, finding it "unreasonable and unrealistic" to assume the GM had been in a good position to identify the correct forum.
Tutor's sacking over "s-x object" comment warranted; $16K compensation after "cursory" text message dismissal; "False hope" provided by AI; Expelled priest not an employee; and Bench upholds joint smoker's reinstatement.
The FWC will early next year hear FAAA and TWU bids to boost flight attendants' pay up to 60% by overhauling the modern award, relying on gender-based undervaluation and changes to the nature of their work.
The FWC has ordered an employer to withdraw its offer of a "customer service continuity payment" for employees working through protected industrial action.
Men in the finance sector are starting to take paid parental leave at similar or higher rates than women when employers offer gender-neutral schemes, according to a FSU report that calls for the scrapping of primary and secondary carer-based models.
The Federal Court has run out of patience with a litigious solicitor whose numerous cases include "scandalous" allegations about a law firm and a FWC member, effectively blocking him from pursuing any further claims, to safeguard the legal system's "finite resources".
The Federal Court has ordered a sacked senior HR manager to pay his former employer $45,000 in costs on a party-basis, after it rejected his AI-infected, meritless, "doomed to fail" bid for a judicial review of two FWC rulings.
The TWU has pledged to fight FedEx like it did Qantas, after filing a Federal Court adverse action case accusing the logistics giant of cancelling the overtime of workers who took protected action and withdrawing approval to attend a delegates' conference.
The FWC has ordered compensation for a daycare educator sacked after a child "sneakily" escaped into an outdoor play area and went unsupervised for 10 minutes.