A manager who tried to "camouflage" unauthorised use of his corporate credit card to buy two cartons of beer for a private work Christmas party has failed to overturn his dismissal.
Former HSU national secretary Craig Thomson failed to provide a categorical medical opinion on the consequences of the Fair Work Commission continuing to pursue its case against him, the Federal Court says in its reasons for refusing to throw the matter out.
The Federal Court has fined 22 building workers $1,000 each for walking off the job over water pressure problems in the toilets and washrooms on their site, in a case brought by the federal building watchdog.
The High Court's seven-member full court has unanimously ruled that thousands of Queensland Rail workers are covered by the Fair Work Act, finding invalid the former Newman Government laws that de-corporatised their employer to bring them into the state IR system.
The High Court will today hear the CFMEU's argument that Boral can't use court discovery processes to force the union to produce documents that might expose it to punishment for contempt for allegedly defying injunctions on Victoria's Regional Rail project.
A Fair Work Commission full bench has criticised a tribunal member for failing to abide by an earlier full bench decision because he did not agree with its interpretation of the Fair Work Act's scope order provisions.
The NUW says there is no basis for a Linfox Australia submission to the Productivity Commission that recommends a radical overhaul of entry laws and cites a "case study" that criticises the union's conduct at a major retailer's warehouse.
The Office of the Australian Small Business Commissioner is pushing for the full adult wage to be paid from the age of 18, questioning the rationale behind the IR system "deeming adulthood to commence at 21".
A Mahjong club took unlawful adverse action when it unilaterally moved a full-time employee to part-time after he sustained a leg injury and claimed workers' compensation, a court has found.
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that a senior construction union official's breaches of the Fair Work Act when he held an unauthorised stopwork meeting that led to a $3,500 penalty wasn't serious enough for it to deny him a new entry permit.
