On-hire workers at a Queensland coal mine who late last year won same-job, same-pay orders did not qualify for any portion of an annual bonus paid to the host's employees, the FWC has held, while separately finding the mine must pay the full incentive to its part-time direct employees, and those on unpaid leave or workers compensation.
The FWC has taken post-employment restraints into account in finding an underperforming sales manager's dismissal unfair, because while they may have been unenforceable they still reduced his prospects of getting a new job.
The FWC has found a chief executive brought in as an independent contractor and paid through her own company had become an employee by the time of her dismissal after she allegedly belittled an employee and reduced them to tears.
The FWC has rejected a wellness and body shaping centre's "absurd" suggestion that an employee abandoned her employment by failing to attend a single shift, when it had directed her not to attend work until it arranged a disciplinary meeting.
The Federal Court has temporarily restrained a trustee from winding up a purported income protection fund that a FWC full bench found had paid the UFU a $1.6 million "secret commission".
The FWC has opened the way for a casual newspaper producer to pursue Guardian Australia for unfair dismissal, finding the terms of his contract did not defeat the systematic basis of his engagements and nor did the fact he declined many shifts.
The Wood inquiry into the CFMEU's activities in Queensland will put construction division administrator Mark Irving KC on the stand in a hearing this week.
The FWC has backed an ASX-listed early education provider's decision to reject a worker's request for flexible arrangements to enable her to keep picking up her children from school each day, instead of moving to a less-accommodating rotating roster.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is removing the former Labor administration's best practice pay and conditions procurement guidelines for new State-funded construction projects, following the release of a State productivity commission report, while the Wood inquiry has appointed new counsel assisting, ahead of its first substantive hearings.
