Unions and dairy giant Parmalat are meeting this morning after its "indefinite" lockout of production and maintenance workers in response to a protected strike.
The FWC has approved an agreement for a franchisee of fast food chain Oporto, after it gave undertakings to lift its base rates of pay by up to a "remarkable" 26%, leaving employees more than 20% better off than under the award.
An FWC full bench has accused the CFMEU of seeking to "disguise" what would be an exercise of judicial power over entry rights as an administrative matter and of relying on a "red herring" argument.
The ABCC is seeking special leave from the High Court to seek to overturn a recent decision that stymied the watchdog's push to prohibit unions from paying fines imposed on officials for unlawful conduct.
The "unusual" involvement of a company's most senior HR personnel has contributed to a tribunal finding that it discriminated against an employee because she contracted tuberculosis.
The FWC after an "exhaustive" process of seeking undertakings, has refused to approve the first national agreement for Swedish fashion chain H&M, mainly because financial detriments to casual employees meant it failed the BOOT.
An FWC full bench has held that an employer is entitled to make workers redundant as part of a restructure to manage loss or damage caused by protected industrial action.
The FWC has declined AGL's request for an order to stop what it suspects is industrial action by employees at its Loy Yang A power plant in Victoria after it was unable to secure enough employees to work overtime, leading to the company being unable to bring two of its four power generating units back online on the weekend.
A tribunal has ordered a hotel and its night caretaker to pay more than $300,000 in damages for the s-xual assault of a female employee after he appeared naked in her bedroom and made unsolicited advances.
The Salvation Army failed to follow its disciplinary processes before it suspended an employee because of flawed HR advice and inexperienced management rather than her alleged pathological gambling addiction, a tribunal has found.
