The PSA has lost its challenge to a NSW IRC decision said to have "wide ranging" implications for union delegates using workplace emails to communicate with union lawyers, with a special constable facing dismissal for disclosing confidential information to inform its application for a new award.
The FWC has declined to interfere with the ATO's decision to refuse a worker absent more than 248 days in a year access to unpaid personal leave, observing that its enterprise agreement did not provide an "unfettered" right to such time off.
The FWC has allowed a 79-day-late unfair dismissal application after accepting an aged care worker relied on the advice of an immigration lawyer to initially contest her sacking through two health regulators.
In a case demonstrating the limits of restraint clauses, a superior court has voided unreasonable constraints a wealth management company owned by US private equity funds sought to enforce when three of its former Melbourne advisors moved to a rival operation owned by Liechtenstein's royal family.
NSW IRC President Ingmar Taylor says after a decade of pay caps depriving the tribunal of the capacity to ensure incomes did not fall behind in real terms, all submissions informing a review of its wage fixing principles are calling for change.
The FWC has ruled that an employee on workers' compensation leave is not eligible for anti-bullying protection because she was absent and not performing work when the alleged bullying occurred.
The AMWU claims in a bid to win coverage of extra classifications at a Queensland mineral field that the AWU has "ignored or failed" to properly service them and left it with the "full burden" of negotiating agreements on their behalf.
A blowout in FEG scheme processing times, a "human-in-the-loop" AI initiative and no gender pay gap among its employees are among the highlights of DEWR's latest annual report, tabled last week.
In a breakthrough for NSW fisheries officers seeking to carry capsicum spray while patrolling for poachers, the State IRC has refused to terminate work bans after the Department of Primary Industries failed to convince it they seriously risk depleting fish stocks.
Lawyers involved in "wage theft" class actions on behalf of thousands of junior doctors says Victorian public health services might face tens of millions of dollars in fines after a court found one of them "expressly and brazenly" instructed trainees to perform unpaid overtime.
