The FWC has rejected two proposed enterprise agreements because the notices of representational rights provided to employees included extra information that rendered them invalid.
The Fair Work Commission has found that an employer was within its rights in dismissing an operator for allegedly planning to steal company property, rather than waiting until the theft occurred.
The Fair Work Commission has emphasised that employers can insist workers comply with social media policies that regulate conduct outside the workplace, in upholding the dismissal of an employee who refused to sign an acknowledgement that he had undergone social media training.
The Federal Circuit Court will determine civil penalties to impose on the CFMEU after finding three officials breached right of entry laws at a Brisbane CBD construction site, despite FWBC's "entirely unsatisfactory" presentation of the case.
Employment Minister Eric Abetz has identified CFMEU construction and general division official Joe McDonald's "continued conduct" as a "case-in-point" for the re-establishment of the ABCC, in his submission to the second Senate inquiry into his building industry legislation.
The chair of a major national market research company accused of sham contracting has taken a swipe at the Fair Work regime, saying the government is being "vicious" and attempting to "stitch people up, like me".
A FWC full bench has refused a long-serving mineworker's bid to overturn his dismissal for making culturally insensitive remarks about some indigenous youths on his employer’s two-way radio network.
The Fair Work Commission has upheld the summary dismissal of a Hunter Valley mineworker because of his dishonesty in response to a positive test result for methamphetamines.
The Fair Work Commission has imposed costs on a Melbourne law firm and its client for a "series of cumulative unreasonable acts" that resulted in a "calamity" for both parties in an unsuccessful unfair dismissal case.
Endeavour Energy has failed to convince the Fair Work Commission to revoke or significantly amend its earlier single member and full bench rulings that the company must use saliva based (swab) tests to detect drugs such as cannabis rather than urine tests.
