The HSU Victorian No.1 branch's auditor has resigned after an investigation by the FWC's general manager found the union's financial reports materially mis-stated elements of its financial position and performance.
The FWC is no longer facing a $1 million-plus hole in its workload-strained finances from the cessation of a small business support program, after the Budget revealed $1.3 million in funding for a similar measure.
Queensland's Crisafulli Government is again seeking FWC intervention to stop industrial action affecting the rail network, ahead of the State hosting the NRL Magic Round and the tribunal kicking off a series of intensive negotiations this week.
An ICT company will have to compensate a worker it immediately dismissed because she copied clients into an email announcing that she intended to resign.
The FWC's review of protected action ballot agents has rejected AREEA's objections to the continuing endorsement of an ACTU-linked agent, but cancelled the approval of one agent that has been liquidated and brought forward its re-consideration of the standing of two agents that are yet to run a vote.
Workplace s-xual harassment remains rife, with victims just as likely to be punished as perpetrators are to face employer disciplinary action, according to new Diversity Council data.
A full Federal Court has opened the door for two state ambulance enterprise unions to win registration, by quashing two FWC rulings that found the unions could not seek federal endorsement.
The FWC has cleared the way for the CFMEU to re-employ a "removed" official once fined for failing to wait for managers to escort him around a construction site before asking "unremarkable and proper" safety-related questions.
Oxfam workers are seeking to formalise a four-day week in their new enterprise agreement, after securing a trial in their previous deal, an Oxfam employee has told the parliamentary inquiry into the NES.
Workers should not think that independent contractors operate in some "unbridled utopia, free from all direction and control", a senior FWC member has observed in tossing out a psychologist's general protections case.
