Queensland's Court of Appeal has overturned a court's order for Woolworths to pay almost $600,000 in damages for breaching its duty of care and causing psychiatric injury to a forklift operator who it twice withdrew from management training.
The NSW IRC has increased the state's weekly minimum award rates by 2.5%, and has foreshadowed a review of the state's wage fixing principles next year.
A witness who claimed to have been stabbed last year as retribution for speaking out on television against the Victorian CFMEU was lying, the Heydon Royal Commission has been told.
Employers must conduct a reasonable investigation and avoid a "knee-jerk reaction" when considering sacking any employee facing serious out-of-hours criminal charges, a tribunal has warned.
The FWC in its annual report says its registered organisations arm's shift from reactive to proactive regulation has played a big part in dramatically improving compliance by unions and employer organisations with reporting deadlines for annual returns and financial reports.
The Flight Attendants' Association has moved a step closer to re-uniting its two divisions, despite the continued opposition of some disaffected long-haul members.
A tribunal has upheld the dismissal of a teacher who physically assaulted a principal he believed was trying to bully him out of the school, but has found he should have had access to better mental health support from his state government employer.
The FWC's newly-released annual report says the tribunal received 17.5% more general protections claims involving dismissal in 2014-15 than in the previous year.
Annual inflation steady at 1.5%; NTEU screens out fossil fuels from investment portfolio; ETU may challenge Essential Energy's "meaningful work placements" for redeployees; Software company SAP sets employment target for Autism; Ros McLennan takes reins at QCU; and Queensland Bills get Royal Assent,
The thaw in relationships between the Turnbull Government and unions has been underlined by an unannounced meeting between new Employment Minster Michaelia Cash and the ACTU leadership early this month.
