The FWC will next week hear a dispute between unions and a leading oil and gas producer over the scope of a proposed enterprise agreement at a major LNG export facility.
Jetstar Airways must reinstate a 60-year-old engineer it dismissed for driving a "tow tug" – usually used only in airports – on a public road to go and buy his lunch, the FWC ruled today.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of an employee for a relentless six-week email campaign in which he made a "deliberate and concerted effort" to discredit IR and ER employees after his demotion for "racial bullying" of an Indian-origin colleague he claimed was "smelly".
The primary objective of superannuation is to provide retirement income to "substitute or supplement" the age pension, according to a Government proposal in a new discussion paper.
The voluntary administrators of Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd have told about 500 QNI refinery workers that their employment will be terminated from 5pm tomorrow.
Power unions say that an application by a NSW Government-owned electricity distributor to terminate its enterprise agreement will led to immediate job losses and pay cuts for hundreds of workers.
The Federal Circuit Court has imposed almost $60,000 in penalties for a "blatant single breach" of the Fair Work Act in which a CFMEU official discarded workers' food from a lunch shed, padlocked the door and said the facility was for union members only.
An appeal court has reduced the $3m severance and bonus payout awarded to an investment bank chief executive dislodged after a global takeover, while it has granted the bank's head of global markets an exit payment of almost $400,000.
