The Fair Work Commission has strongly criticised a major multinational company over its sacking of an employee who had made a WorkCover claim, saying that from the moment he reported his injury it "embarked on an exercise directed to establishing that he was dishonest and fraudulent".
A TNT Express driver who clumsily tried to extricate himself from a conversation that had s--ual undertones with a younger female retail store employee did not breach the company's harassment and discrimination policy, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The Fair Work Commission has rejected stevedore DP World's bid for orders at its troubled Fremantle terminal, holding that while "the attributes of a cooperative and productive workforce may have been missing in the past", there was no evidence industrial action was taking place or planned.
Boral chief executive Mike Kane has told the Heydon Royal Commission that his company is contemplating new legal action against its competitors, customers and the CFMEU under competition law, labelling them as conspirators in a union campaign to deprive it of its Melbourne market share after it refused to cut off supplies to Grocon.
Wage rises in private sector federal enterprise agreements continued to rise at levels below the post-GFC average in the March quarter of this year, according to new data from the Department of Employment.
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal, which has had an uncertain future since the Coalition won office last year, has announced an inquiry into the cash-in-transit industry.
WA-based construction company BGC Australia and the CFMEU have settled the compensation claim the company pursued after the delay to a crucial concrete pour on one of its sites during a dispute between the union and a subcontractor.
The Heydon Royal Commission has raised the possibility that the CFMEU's bans on Boral concrete supplies might have contravened anti-cartel and blackmail laws, in addition to flouting secondary boycott provisions.
The FWC has rejected an employer's cost claim against an employee who made an unsuccessful anti-bullying application, saying it was not persuaded she should have understood she had no reasonable prospect of success.
The FWC has rejected an employer's costs claim against an employee who made an unsuccessful anti-bullying application, saying it was not persuaded she should have understood she had no reasonable prospect of success.
