Thomas Costa says his first priority as the new leader of Unions NSW will be campaigning against One Nation's "anti-worker" and "incredibly offensive" policies in the lead-up to the State election in March next year.
The FWC has thrown out a worker's flexible work bid after she attempted to "call in" older medical documents and conceded she had not been diagnosed with the disability identified in her request.
A tribunal is poised to order a council to pay more than $900,000 to a worker it discriminated against by sacking him over his inability to drive an allocated vehicle, in a decision panning a "chilling" suggestion that show cause letters formed part of consultations to identify reasonable adjustments.
The FWC has ordered compensation for an unfairly sacked WesTrac specialist who altered a leave claim to secure payment for public holidays during the Stokes family-controlled company's end-of-year shutdown period.
A full Federal Court has found Metro Trains Melbourne discharged its reverse onus in an adverse action case despite its failure to call a workplace relations head and practising lawyer it approached for "IR advice" in the lead-up to a senior manager's sacking.
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a porter after an alleged workplace s-xual assault, despite slamming "unreliable and inconsistent" evidence from its HR manager.
The MEU is funding a class action against BHP for requiring on-hire production and maintenance crew to work public holidays, allegedly without making a reasonable request or telling them they could reasonably refuse, while the mining giant is challenging the legal principle at the heart of the case.
A worker punching his colleague after their workplace Christmas party warranted his summary dismissal despite it occurring out of hours, the FWC has ruled.
The FWC has upheld a council's decision to refuse a worker's flexible work request, finding it had reasonable business grounds to align rosters with its revised operating hours and increase employee presence for safety reasons.
