Four senior NSW IRC judges - including the President, Justice Roger Boland - will retire early next year and won't be replaced, in what the Opposition, Greens and unions maintain is a further attack on the independent umpire by the O'Farrell Government.
In a study with implications for workplace drug testing, Australian researchers have found that exercise substantially increases cannabis levels in the blood.
Odds Shorten on new ALP leader; ASU members vote up new Qantas deal; New workplace leadership centre hiring; Holden variation wins FWC approval; New Victorian Human Rights Commissioner takes up role; and Queensland IRC makes two-tiered minimum rates adjustment.
An employee suspended for refusing to work from home while his bullying allegations were investigated has failed in his bid to rely on state whistleblower legislation to secure injunctions against further disciplinary action, including his sacking.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the dismissal of an Alcoa worker who made culturally offensive remarks on a two-way radio at the company's Huntly bauxite mine south of Perth about some indigenous youths who had insulted his mother in nearby Pinjarra.
Patrick can recruit five new employees to oversee the automated operations that will displace about 200 stevedoring employees at its Port Botany container terminal in Sydney without being obliged to consult the MUA or consider existing employees for the positions, the FWC has ruled.
The Federal Court has ruled that a betting agency employee's ability to seek legal advice about unpaid commissions was a "workplace right" and that when she threatened to exercise it, her employer took adverse action against her by threatening to sack her.
FWC rules it has no jurisdiction to hear stand-down case; Linfox's 11th-hour offer avoids finding that alternative jobs not suitable; FWC delivers on pizza chain's transfer of business; and Full bench overturns changes to modern health award.
Companies are entitled to reconfigure their HR roles, but a "desire to do things differently" is not enough to justify dismissing an employee, the FWC has found.
