"No basis" for appeal against unfair domestic violence sacking, Manus Island security guard not unfairly dismissed; Medical evidence establishes employee unable to perform inherent requirements; Dismissal fair despite flaws in procedure; and Company onside in sacking offsider.
The FWC has agreed to suppress the identity of an employee representative who signed off on an enterprise agreement on the condition he would remain anonymous, because he feared victimisation in the workplace after the ETU resolved to oppose it.
A bill introduced to Queensland's Parliament by IR Minister Grace Grace yesterday ushers in a new regime for workplace discrimination, and for the first time, provides protections against adverse action and bullying.
A Coles Supermarkets night-fill worker who is seeking to terminate the retailer's 2011 enterprise agreement has failed to stymie bids by the retailer and the SDA to be represented by lawyers.
A tribunal has overturned an Employment Department decision to refuse a patent lawyer's Fair Entitlements Guarantee claim after it found there was no "tacit" agreement that his employment was transferred from a company that became insolvent.
The Federal Court has ordered Rio Tinto subsidiary Hail Creek Coal to pay $1.3 million in compensation and interest for the adverse action it took against an injured mineworker.
The Victorian Supreme Court has rejected a long-running claim by a former Police Association leader that the then Police Chief Commissioner tried to force him out of the union job by launching a malicious prosecution in 2007.
An accountant suspended and sent on "home leave" for his failure to honour a sale of business transaction and misdirecting company funds will receive seven months' salary because his employer failed to formally dismiss him, the Victorian Supreme Court has found.
AGL will adhere to an FWC recommendation to put an enterprise agreement to workers at its Loy Yang A power station and brown coal mine that provides annual pay rises of 5% over four years.
