The FWC has confirmed an electrical contractor's pursuit of a multi-employer deal does not displace its obligation to negotiate a single enterprise agreement sought by the ETU, granting the union a PABO after finding the company breached good faith obligations.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has rejected a bid by the former chief operations officer of a technology start-up incubator to use its small claims jurisdiction to boost his employee incentive scheme payment by $85,500.
The Senate has this evening passed legislation to ease the FWC's surging workload, after the Albanese Government accepted a Greens amendment to close what they say is a loophole in intractable bargaining provisions.
A Federal Court judge has awarded costs against retailer H&M after expressing bemusement at its reasons for seeking to suppress seemingly "anodyne" details of an adverse action case brought by its former Australia/NZ HR leader.
In a significant ruling on applications to work from home, the FWC has agreed with a multinational company's claim that its payroll officer could not devote sufficient attention to "complex" tasks while caring for two children under five.
Bargained private sector annual pay rises increased to 4.1% a year in the March quarter, according to new DEWR data, outpacing headline inflation and the wage price index.
The FWC has refused a labour-supplier's bid to reduce a Tasmanian fitter's redundancy pay to zero, finding that the FIFO role the company offered him in South Australia would involve greater costs and significantly more travel.
The FWC has upheld the dismissal of a nurse who attempted to start a competitor to an ANMF branch, finding that he called in sick and used the time to campaign, repeatedly complained about his colleagues and HR without foundation, and had been "indiscriminately rude".
A tribunal has rejected an APESMA member's claim that the union refused to represent her after Google sacked her because of an alleged psychiatric disability, ruling that the union did so because she refused to heed its advice to attend an independent medical examination.
