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.
A FWC full bench has for the first time considered whether non-parties to a dispute can appeal an arbitrated outcome, concluding that a peak employer body concerned about the implications of a classification decision satisfied the legislative definition of a "person aggrieved".
A BHP subsidiary unreasonably docked by 5% the wages of Pilbara power workers who engaged in protected partial work bans, the FWC has ruled, reducing the discount to 2% after registering "significant concerns" with the resources giant's calculation methodology.
A serial-offending IR advisory business has drawn criticism from the FWC for setting "an unacceptably low bar", this time after it failed to check that it correctly filed a worker's unfair dismissal claim within the 21-day limit.
ASIC's pursuit of former Super Retail chief executive Anthony Heraghty over his alleged failure to disclose a relationship with the head of HR could flow through to influence how boards identify and manage personal conflicts of interest, says a leading commercial lawyer.
A marine superintendent who unsuccessfully challenged a cruise operator's right to stand him down during the Covid-19 pandemic has failed to have the decision belatedly anonymised, after a FWC full bench expressed doubt that it could affect his job prospects.
Five years after a judge delayed a trial over concerns that he could not properly assess witness credibility when evidence is given remotely, another judicial officer has hailed the technology as aiding the task because large courtroom screens mean reactions and responses "tend to be exaggerated, rather than minimised".
The FWC will this afternoon hear Uber's bid to stay, pending its appeal, the reactivation of a driver accused of speeding and watching YouTube while at the wheel, after its own data proved "particularly damning" for its case.
The FWC has declared the long-running Queensland Rail dispute resolved following a "substantial" and "intensive" undertaking, while strongly urging workers vote to accept seven in-principle deals rather than holding out for an intractable bargaining process.
The FWC has made it clear that it is not its role to protect the personal assets of directors, in dismissing a mining services contractor's request to escape paying $190,000 in redundancies.
