In the latest public sector wage-cap fracture, Northern Territory public servants are weighing a 1% above-cap offer, in-line with a FWC recommendation, but still below the 15% NT police received.
A new FWC member has recalled how he made the "unusual" choice of the talismanic Weipa mine dispute as the subject of a school assignment after developing an interest in a field nurtured by absolutely no-one.
The FWC has thrown out a real estate employee's claim that her employer unfairly summarily dismissed her for sending herself confidential information and setting up a competing business.
A FWC member has thrown out the dispute application of a disability support worker who showed an "abject disregard" for the tribunal and deliberately flouted its direction not to contact a former client.
A FWC member has criticised a union's "sneaky" application for a protected action ballot at one of nine interconnected workplaces as potentially "dragg[ing]" members into an industrial campaign "they did not authorise".
In a significant ruling on stand downs, a full bench has upheld a challenge to a hospital's refusal to pay a nurse who declined redeployment to another ward due to a work ban, but found on redetermination that the employer was otherwise entitled to withhold payment.
Bechtel has won wide-ranging production orders for union documents related to the Offshore Alliance and bargaining for the Pluto Train 2 Project, but has been refused "overly broad" access to organisers' communications, in pursuit of its bid to exclude the MEU and AWU partnership from negotiations.
After initially boosting First Nations employment largely in lower-level roles, an APS leadership program has doubled their number in senior executive service positions over the last two years, the latest state of the public service report has revealed, which also spells out the continuing prevalence of working from home.
The author of a book tracing 150 years of campaigning for a shorter Australian working week says it offers crucial lessons for current efforts to win a four-day work week, cut unpaid overtime, and properly account for domestic labour, while AMWU national secretary Steve Murphy considers it part of a "just transition".
Already facing a $1 billion-plus wage-theft bill, Woolworths has now been hit with a shareholder class action claiming it breached continuous disclosure rules by failing to keep the market informed about the extent of staff underpayments and published financial records from 2010 to 2025 that "overstated [its] financial results".
