Employers calculating redundancy payments will have to count periods of regular and systematic casual employment before workers became permanent, after a Fair Work Commission majority ruling that a dissenting member warns could retrospectively bestow other entitlements such as annual leave.
Stevedore DP World has accused the MUA of scaremongering over plans for its employees to take over the roles of workers who moor ships at the Port of Melbourne and its installation of extra security cameras.
The RTBU has called off protected strikes at the Australian Rail Track Corporation after employees voted up an enterprise agreement that has been hotly opposed by rail unions.
The FWC has today suppressed the names of a group of Programmed Skilled Workforce Limited labour hire workers who are seeking anti-bullying orders against picketers at Carlton & United's Abbotsford brewery in Melbourne.
A tribunal has upheld an Employment Department decision to use part-time hours to calculate Fair Entitlement Guarantee payments for an employee who lost his job when employer went into liquidation, even though he worked full-time for more than 40 years before it cut his hours in a bid to stay afloat.
The new board of Victoria's Country Fire Authority has approved the enterprise agreement for its professional firefighters, but a lengthy legal battle is on the cards over the role of more than 55,000 volunteers.
An unfair dismissal claim by a Manus Island offshore processing centre security advisor has failed after the FWC upheld the employer's jurisdictional objection that he wasn't sacked, but rather his contract had simply expired.
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A builder that took adverse action against a subcontractor it refused to engage for not having a certified enterprise agreement with the CFMEU has been fined more than $25,000 by the Federal Circuit Court.
A road freight group is warning it does not want a repeat of the abolished Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, as it faces a court challenge to its bid to have members exempted from legislation extending minimum rates for owner-drivers and contractors throughout NSW.
