A council's desire to have a senior planning team member pass on his wisdom in-person provided reasonable business grounds to refuse his request to work at home for all but six days a month, the FWC has found.
The Federal Court will hear a former Health Department compliance evaluator's challenge to the FWC upholding his dismissal for engaging in persistent and unreasonable complainant conduct, including communications that left managers in fear of making adverse decisions.
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.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a nurse who attempted to start a competitor to an ANMF branch, finding that he called in sick and used the time to campaign, repeatedly complained about his colleagues and HR without foundation, and had been "indiscriminately rude".
Victoria's Allan Government has introduced legislation to create a fair jobs code for local government and to extend Commonwealth flexible working arrangements, pay secrecy, and fixed term and casual employment provisions to public sector workers.
In echoes of the last round of contested negotiations, the FSU is urging Reserve Bank employees to reject a unilateral offer that it warns will prompt a "brain drain" to more lucrative public and private sector roles.
NT Corrections has for the third time failed to halt prison officer strikes, with the FWC finding that the industrial action is protected and the UWU has complied with its assurances that it would protect the safety of prisoners.
A FWC full bench has ruled that Corrections Victoria dismissed a prison officer when it demoted and transferred him, clearing the way for him to proceed with his unfair dismissal claim.
A FWC full bench has quashed a finding that the ACT's education department unfairly sacked a teacher who crossed boundaries with students, including by messaging them and providing lifts, remitting the case to another member for redetermination.
The AEU's Victorian branch says an Allan Government offer to lift public school teachers' pay by up to 32% over four years will put them ahead of their NSW counterparts and is "worthy" of members' endorsement.
