The High Court has granted the Commonwealth Bank leave to appeal the Federal Court's seminal full court ruling that the implied contractual term of mutual trust and confidence is part of Australian law.
A tribunal has ordered a male traffic controller who s-xually harassed a female colleague to pay her $102,217 compensation, and highlighted the limited options available to women who are victims of humiliating conduct in male-dominated workplaces.
FWC releases bullying guide, flowchart; Vale Terry Ludeke and Keith Marshall; Abetz consulting on appeals jurisdiction policy that's yet to be released, says Opposition.
The Fair Work Commission has taken the unusual step of awarding $10,000 costs against a former Qube Ports employee, in a case that led to the employer asking police to investigate whether an attempt had been made to covertly record a conciliation session.
A manager who "joked" in a Facebook post about s-xually harassing a new male employee "behind the stationery cupboard", and likened their daily work to being an--ly r-ped, has failed to overturn his dismissal for serious misconduct.
A Federal Court full court has resoundingly rejected Linfox's challenge to a FWC full bench ruling in favour of a driver who was sacked for posting derogatory and offensive comments about his managers on Facebook.
The HSU has this week launched legal proceedings to recover millions of dollars of misappropriated funds from a self-described "Mr Fix-It" supplier and the procurement officer for the former HSU East secretary, Michael Williamson.
With reports circulating of a planned royal commission into union misconduct, the House of Representatives has passed the Coalition's registered organisations bill - its first measure directly targeting unions.
Toyota Australia will now have to undertake a "two-step process" to remove "uncompetitive" clauses from its enterprise agreement, after the Federal Court's Justice Mordy Bromberg this afternoon issued an injunction halting a ballot that was to open at midnight.
A day after Holden's announcement that it will pull out of Australia by the end of 2017, the Federal Court has found that Toyota's bid to amend its enterprise agreement to remove what it called "outdated and uncompetitive" provisions is in breach of the deal's "no extra claims" clause.
