An accounts manager seeking a month-long extension to lodge an unfair dismissal claim after initially filing a blank form has failed to convince the FWC it was exceptional that she missed the FWC's replies as they landed in her junk mail.
The ACCC has today given preliminary approval to Virgin Australia's proposed "wet lease" arrangement with Qatar Airways that enables the local carrier to offer flights to Doha, prompting the TWU to call on the airline to accelerate consultations over a "best practice" model for affected employees.
A customer service operator's "pregnancy brain" contributed to her filing a late application contesting her redundancy and was among the factors justifying an extension, the FWC has found.
The TWU is seeking a road transport contractual chain order for the cash-in-transit industry, to create minimum standards for contractors, and ensure banks and industry participants "do their fair share to properly fund critical cash-in-transit services", that might otherwise "face extinction".
A TWU delegate and rubbish truck driver who drank six beers at a union event but suggested his David Beckham cologne and sanitiser might explain his low-level positive reading for alcohol at work the next morning has failed to overturn his sacking.
The NSW Government's urgent tandem bid today to pause industrial action that is causing chaos across the Sydney train network will be heard by the FWC in two expedited hearings tomorrow and on Wednesday, while President Adam Hatcher has recommended that unions suspend industrial action to aid a possible resolution.
After the UFU refused to comply with a FWC order to hand over a trust deed for an income protection scheme, the Federal Court has also ordered the union to produce the document.
The FWC has found that an employer forced a Jewish worker to resign when it failed to resolve a bullying dispute centred on her request to not work on Shabbat, amidst rumours it intended to get "rid of her".
A major construction company has avoided having to compensate a worker despite failing to properly consult with him over his redundancy, after the FWC found on balance that such "deficiencies" ultimately did not make the dismissal unfair.
A HR manager has been told to go back to the drawing board in establishing a general protections case against an online trading company and its billionaire founder, who she accuses of having repeatedly directed her to manage employees in ways that would breach workplace laws.
