A senior lawyer at a boutique employment law firm engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct while representing a community sector worker seeking an increased redundancy payment, a tribunal has found.
The FWC has ruled that a company's enterprise agreement obliges it provide "meaningful work" to redeployees and operates as an exception to the general rule that there is no common law right to be provided with work.
The Fair Work Building Construction (FWBC) will "continue to vigorously defend" a case brought against it by a solicitor allegedly demoted by its director, Nigel Hadgkiss, after an internal review found she had breached the APS Code of Conduct.
PPL changes to leave working women worse off, new research shows; ResMed again fails to overturn majority support ruling; Secret recording of disciplinary meeting by employee earns commissioner’s ire; No second chance for employee who failed drug test; Employer with dedicated HR personnel should have done better; Bid for stand down pay lost as appellants were no longer employed.
An FWC full bench has quashed a finding that BHP Coal unfairly dismissed an employee due to shortcomings in procedural fairness, after finding it reasonable for the company to have "leanings or inclinations" on sanctions to apply when its investigation indicated the worker had engaged in serious misconduct.
The Heydon Royal Commission has recommended that the Turnbull Government introduce special legislation to disqualify officers of the CFMEU who are deemed by Parliament to be not to be fit and proper persons, while stopping short of recommending the union's deregistration.
New analysis of recently-released ABS data shows that the decline in union membership has resumed and the reduction in density has accelerated, according to Griffith University's Professor David Peetz.
