Building union members walked off a McDonald's construction site in Melbourne's outer east yesterday, citing safety concerns caused by the presence of community protesters opposed to the fast food chain establishing a new restaurant in the area.
A subsidiary of a multinational software company has convinced the Federal Circuit Court that its dismissal of a manager on the eve of going on maternity leave was not adverse action, but a genuine redundancy, despite the company's failure to follow its own internal processes.
BHP Billiton subsidiary Endeavour Coal has partially succeeded in defending an adverse action case brought by the CFMEU, which alleged the company gave a maintenance fitter a final written warning because he exercised his workplace right to take personal/carer's leave.
An award-winning architecture and design company had a valid reason to dismiss a senior designer who breached his employment contract when he attempted to solicit its clients via LinkedIn to help expand his own business, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Delivering on the President's Future Directions commitment to increase assistance for self-represented parties, the Fair Work Commission today released the final version of a benchbook containing "plain English summaries" of the key principles in unfair dismissal case law.
Describing the consequences of its ruling as "unfortunate", the Federal Court has upheld a finding that a trainee communications worker was not entitled to be reimbursed for the cost of travelling between Wodonga and Newcastle – a 1520km round trip – to attend off-the-job training.
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An employer has failed in its bid to terminate an expired enterprise agreement after the Fair Work Commission ruled that it would change the status quo in bargaining for a new one and deliver individual contracts to the workplace.
BHP Coal Pty Limited made a "proportionate" decision to dismiss a shotfirer who threw a projectile at a moving car containing non-union workers while participating in a CFMEU picket, the Fair Work Commission has found.
The Federal Circuit Court has ruled that the Commonwealth Privacy Act is not a workplace law, in throwing out an adverse action claim by a prospective employee who refused to provide a copy of her passport and electronic signature as part of a pre-employment screening process for a permanent job.
