The High Court has today denied the CFMEU special leave to challenge a ruling that an employer didn't engage in unlawful adverse action when it transferred an employee from weekend to weekday shifts because of the "lack of predictability" in his attendance.
The Fair Work Commission has again refused to issue good faith bargaining orders against the MUA over the deadlocked offshore and gas bargaining round with a group of vessel operators.
Employment Minister Michaelia Cash today appointed a former Freehills and Clayton Utz lawyer, an ACCI IR director and two IR managers as members of the FWC, while she extended the term of the tribunal's sole acting commissioner.
The Victorian Government has agreed to abide by Federal Court orders that it repay $37 million to 46,000 teachers who had money unlawfully deducted from their wages for laptop computers they needed for work.
Former Federal Court judge Peter Heerey will now deliver his report on senior FWC member Michael Lawler's conduct at the end of February next year, after Employment Minister Michaelia Cash granted an extension.
The Victorian Supreme Court has upheld a tribunal's finding that a Catholic secondary school discriminated against a teacher when it sacked him for forming a relationship with a former student after she graduated.
Victorian police have won pay increases of 12% over four years, plus "long-awaited" penalty rates for working on weekends and public holidays, under an in-principle deal with the Andrews Government that also seeks to address sexual harassment, predatory behaviour and sex discrimination within the force.
Two former employees of the Cbus industry superannuation fund have indicated they will plead guilty to charges of giving false evidence to the Heydon Royal Commission.
A fly-in, fly-out employee can claim workers' compensation for injuries a violent co-worker inflicted outside working hours at a BHP Billiton mining town's pub, because he was there due to his job, a full Federal Court has ruled.
An FWC full bench has overturned a commissioner's reinterpretation of the definition of the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour" when determining redundancy pay rights in the contracting and labour hire industries.
