The FWC has upheld the sacking of an employee who worked outside the scope of her role - potentially exposing her employer to liability - despite "defects" in the employer's processes.
A leading IR academic says the Liberal Party might for the first time since 2013 present "something that looks like an IR platform" in the lead-up to the May 3 federal election, while he expects Labor to largely focus on what it has already accomplished.
RAFFWU has asked a full Federal Court today to void the Woolworths "rotten SDA sellout deal" that it claimed stripped workers' rights, froze wages and cut conditions.
Minns Government legislation to boost protections for NSW gig workers and owner drivers in the road transport sector has passed both houses of State Parliament.
As Australia officially starts counting down to the May 3 federal election, Labor has added the abolition of non-compete clauses to its fledgling list of IR policies, the Coalition has upped to 41,000 the number of public servants' jobs it will ditch if it wins, and the Greens will push for a four-day work week and 12 days reproductive leave.
The FWC has found employer unfairly dismissed a worker when it cut his shifts after he took up work at a competing branch of the same franchise, because it wanted workers committed to the "awesomeness" of the business.
In newly-issued reasons, a full Federal Court has taken issue with the ETU challenging the suspension of industrial action on the Sydney rail network on the basis that the FWC bench treated unions as an "undifferentiated whole", finding that the unions told the tribunal the individual positions of the bargaining representatives "were irrelevant".
Mining unions have applied to the FWC for a majority support determination to force Rio Tinto to the bargaining table with workers at its Paraburdoo iron ore operations, while an IR researcher says in a forthcoming book that Pilbara workers' ambitious demands at the height of union power more than four decades ago can provide lessons for unions today.
The Ai Group has hinted at a potential "consensus" in a FWC-initiated case with economy-wide implications to consider inserting WFH provisions in the clerks award, while expressing concern that it would be "unfair" to require submissions ahead of results of a survey on the issue, with the tribunal now persuaded to ditch the deadline and hold a conference.
