Packaging giant Visy is pursuing the AWMU, a delegate and 69 individual workers for fines and compensation over alleged unlawful industrial action that began last month at a Victorian site.
The FWC has implored a barrister to urge his client to "at least consider" engaging with employees, after conceding it has no jurisdiction to deal with a dispute over a "double standard" on redundancy packages between blue and white-collar workers.
The High Court has reserved its decision on parallel appeals by Esso and the AWU questioning what constitutes a breach of bargaining orders and whether a breach during bargaining means future protected action is not possible.
A warehouse team leader must match wits with Woolworths' in-house HR/IR managers over his unfair dismissal claim after the FWC refused to allow either party legal representation for what it determined was a matter "not complex enough" to involve lawyers or paid agents.
A general manager might have avoided taking unlawful adverse action against a pregnant employee if he consulted the company's HR department before bringing forward her redundancy by eight days, a court has found.
An FWC full bench will go ahead with a day trip to inspect the Perisher and Thredbo alpine resorts after the SDA raised concerns that it would not help to determine the coverage of an award undergoing the four-yearly review process and might be used for "back door" evidence-gathering.
An FWC full bench has thrown out a CFMEU bid to quash a code-compliant Lendlease agreement, rejecting the union's claims that that the company sought to coerce it into being bound by the agreement and that it misled employees into thinking the union was covered.
Two key Senate crossbenchers are pushing for changes to the Turnbull Government’s vulnerable workers legislation to soften its impacts on franchisors and holding companies.
