A full Federal Court has quashed the approval of an allegedly substandard security services agreement and sent it back to the FWC, finding a full bench failed to properly formalise its ruling and to consider United Voice claims that it didn't pass the BOOT.
Unions representing police, nurses and ambulance officers have expressed strong reservations over the Turnbull Government's legislation to defend the role of volunteers in Victoria's Country Fire Authority, while Professor Andrew Stewart says parties might be able to readily sidestep the legislative restrictions via side deeds.
A HR manager who rose to the general manager role at Surf Life Saving NSW before resigning in July over his embezzlement of an estimated $3 million has won a variation to freezing orders on his assets.
Former ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons has blasted the union movement's emphasis on political campaigning and electoral politics, rather than focusing on "real organising" and workplace issues.
A court has refused a Fair Entitlements Guarantee payment to an estranged spouse who was working for her husband when his business collapsed but claimed her marriage effectively ended after he took a second wife two years ago.
The FWC has granted an AWU bid for a majority support determination after an employer "gilded the lily" in its one-sided presentation against bargaining with the union at a toolbox meeting.
The FWC has thrown out a teacher's anti-bullying application after he withdrew his acceptance of settlement terms that included relocation to a new workplace and anger management support and sought to re-activate his case.
Tasmanian independent Senator Jacqui Lambie says the Turnbull Government must plug a "loophole" in the Fair Work Act that has been exposed by the Carlton and United Brewery dispute.
Qube Ports did not take adverse action against an employee it sacked for refusing to work at a higher classification, because under its enterprise agreement it could make that direction, a full Federal Court has found.
