A court is seeking pro bono legal representation for a massage parlour and its former employee, who claims she was sacked because she took leave after she was injured in the workplace.
A tribunal has backed a decision by YMCA NSW to not appoint a man in his fifties as a senior pool lifeguard after he referred, during his interview, to physically touching and wrestling troubled young men he was counselling.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has ruled that representative error does not provide an "inviolable reason" for granting an extension of time for an unfair dismissal claim due to exceptional circumstances.
Doubts remain over $31 million in entitlements owed to 800 current and former Queenland Nickel employees unless the company's administrators can secure fresh investment in coming months.
A child care centre that sacked a carer on the same day it conducted an impromptu performance assessment was not motivated by her earlier exercise of a workplace right when she complained about her treatment, the FWC has ruled in a consent arbitration.
The Fair Work Commission, in a decision published today, says it suspended the MUA's protected industrial action at Patrick container terminals to allow further private negotiations to be assisted by presidential member Anna Booth.
Changes proposed by the Productivity Commission to the selection process for FWC members could lead to governments "stacking" the proposed expert appointment panel - and, consequently, the tribunal - the AiG has warned in a submission to the Turnbull Government.
The ETU has launched a case alleging that FIFO workers on the Ichthys LNG project were short-changed when they received notice of retrenchment immediately before a rest and recreation period.
An employee who revealed details about his manager's marital status and the company's loss of an important contract in an email to a prospective employer was not unfairly dismissed, the FWC has found.
The Essendon Football Club has today been fined $200,000 by the Victorian Magistrates Court for risking its players' health and failing to keep a safe workplace during its 2011-2012 supplements program.
