The Victorian Government has agreed to abide by Federal Court orders that it repay $37 million to 46,000 teachers who had money unlawfully deducted from their wages for laptop computers they needed for work.
Former Federal Court judge Peter Heerey will now deliver his report on senior FWC member Michael Lawler's conduct at the end of February next year, after Employment Minister Michaelia Cash granted an extension.
The Victorian Supreme Court has upheld a tribunal's finding that a Catholic secondary school discriminated against a teacher when it sacked him for forming a relationship with a former student after she graduated.
Victorian police have won pay increases of 12% over four years, plus "long-awaited" penalty rates for working on weekends and public holidays, under an in-principle deal with the Andrews Government that also seeks to address sexual harassment, predatory behaviour and sex discrimination within the force.
Two former employees of the Cbus industry superannuation fund have indicated they will plead guilty to charges of giving false evidence to the Heydon Royal Commission.
A fly-in, fly-out employee can claim workers' compensation for injuries a violent co-worker inflicted outside working hours at a BHP Billiton mining town's pub, because he was there due to his job, a full Federal Court has ruled.
An FWC full bench has overturned a commissioner's reinterpretation of the definition of the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour" when determining redundancy pay rights in the contracting and labour hire industries.
The CFMEU is tomorrow seeking special leave from the High Court to challenge a finding that an employer did not take adverse action against an employee because it was motivated by the "impact" of the person exercising a workplace right rather than the "actual exercise" of the right.
Pay rises in public sector agreements approved by the FWC in the September quarter hit a three-year low, while a 4% increase for Coles supermarkets employees lifted rises in private sector agreements to an almost two-year high, according to Department of Employment data.
