Agreements covering nurses at three Melbourne private hospitals allegedly made without employer consent are about to come back under the microscope, with the Kaizen Group next week seeking special leave to challenge in the High Court a finding that the FWC was entitled to approve them.
The FWC has dismissed a request to correct a bullying decision that mistakenly said a company's general and HR managers arrived unannounced to berate an employee, when in fact they called in advance.
An FWC full bench has highlighted the importance of scrutinising the "totality of material" lodged to support the approval of agreements, after it quashed a deal that was passed despite "inconsistent" declarations from a HR manager about compliance with mandatory pre-approval steps.
Victorian Small Business Minister Adem Somyurek has resigned after an inquiry into bullying allegations against him found that he had made inappropriate physical contact with his chief of staff and been verbally aggressive to her and another staffer.
An FWC full bench has reserved its decision on an appeal by Chevron against the reinstatement of a highly paid safety officer at its Gorgon LNG project over a mistake that could have had "potentially catastrophic consequences".
A subcontractor recorded almost every conversation he had with CFMEU officials in the ACT for several years and kept them in multiple safes, the Heydon Royal Commission has been told.
The Federal Circuit Court has made an interim order for a Grill'd hamburger franchisee to reinstate a worker who was allegedly sacked after complaining about being underpaid.
Former CFMEU official Ben Loakes' claims the union conspired to have him sacked have been rejected by the FWC after it found the official's evidence did not stand up to "any scrutiny".
Construction unions have convinced the ALP national conference to support a wide-ranging crackdown on fly-in, fly-out workforces, including enforceable limits on "high compression rosters", plus bans on "motelling" and "hot bedding".
