Woolworths claims Friday's Federal Court underpayments ruling will cost it an extra $470 million before tax and "will require significant and widespread changes to accepted retail practice".
The FWC has reinstated a dairy worker and translated its ruling into his Rohingya language to ensure he understands the concerns that led to his sacking, while also warning the employer it needs to better manage the challenges of a diverse workforce.
A tribunal has awarded a worker s-xually harassed and assaulted by her boss $140,000 in damages, based on the nature of the conduct and the continued "profound and significant detrimental impact" on her quality of life, plus $10,000 in aggravated damages and $26,500 in costs.
CFMEU administrator Mark Irving KC's biannual financial statements for the six months to February 22, tabled in Federal Parliament yesterday, records a $3.6 million deficit, part of the wash-up from a $25 million IT project he has terminated.
The FWC has found a former CFMEU construction division official "removed" by administrator Mark Irving KC is fit to hold office in a union and act as a bargaining representative, five months after it cleared him to take up a part-time role with the ETU.
The union representing coal mining staff and supervisors has welcomed today's full Federal Court endorsement of the FWC's authorisation of multi-employer bargaining with three coal-mining giants, even though it has now chosen to pursue single enterprise deals.
Silk Liam Kelly, who has a strong background in commercial law, and two junior counsel have been appointed to assist Commissioner Stuart Wood KC's inquiry into the CFMEU construction and general division's Queensland branch
The FWC has found an employer that accused a carpenter of submitting a "fake doctor's certificate" complied with the small business fair dismissal code when it summarily sacked him.
The Federal Court has today resolved issues about the construction of the retail award ahead of determining compensation for tens of thousands of underpaid Coles and Woolworths managers, while upbraiding the FWO and Adero, which brought the cases, for running them in a manner that made them "unacceptably complex".
If unions lead the way, AI provides a "once-in-a-generation chance" to rebuild the middle class and restore dignity to workers that has been eroded by "decades of rising inequality and casualisation", Labor frontbencher Andrew Leigh has told an ACTU AI symposium.
