The FWC has ordered an employer that ran an "absurd" Monty Pythonesque defence to pay almost $90,000 to cover the legal costs of a teacher it sacked for "disgraceful, improper or unbecoming" conduct after she aired grievances at a school meeting.
A flight attendants union leader who is being prosecuted by the FWC maintains there was "absolutely nothing untoward" in the union backpaying him for almost 13 weeks of annual leave.
A newly-approved three-year enterprise deal for National Basketball League players lifts minimum salaries from $37,000 under a nominally-expired 2013 agreement to $40,000 and then to $45,000.
The FWC is prosecuting the TWU over its alleged failure to keep proper records in three states, including by keeping on its books almost 21,000 un-financial members in NSW.
The Fair Work Commission's general manager has launched an inquiry into the actions of former leaders of the CFMEU construction and general division's NSW branch, after the Heydon Royal Commission referred the matter to the tribunal.
The CFMEU has won a document discovery order over the withdrawn prosecution of its national secretary Michael O'Connor, in a judgment that ropes in Employment Minster Michaelia Cash.
The SA branch of the Independent Education Union has lodged an application for bargaining orders against Catholic school employers after a stoush over a union update to members prompted them to withdraw from negotiations for a new agreement covering about 6000 teachers and support workers in 193 schools.
In a damning report on Woolworths' trolley collection services, the FWO has issued a warning to businesses that use multi-tiered sub-contracting arrangements to "reap the benefit of underpaid labour" while failing to take responsibility for their supply chains.
Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten told the CFMEU that he was opposed to a specialist regulator for the construction industry when seeking the union's support to become Labor's leader in September 2013.
