The TWU has pledged to fight FedEx like it did Qantas, after filing a Federal Court adverse action case accusing the logistics giant of cancelling the overtime of workers who took protected action and withdrawing approval to attend a delegates' conference.
Interested parties have a month to critique the Albanese Government's draft Secure Jobs framework and related changes to the code of conduct for prospective Commonwealth contractors, after their release today.
The FWC has ordered compensation for a daycare educator sacked after a child "sneakily" escaped into an outdoor play area and went unsupervised for 10 minutes.
A FWC full bench has for the first time considered whether non-parties to a dispute can appeal an arbitrated outcome, concluding that a peak employer body concerned about the implications of a classification decision satisfied the legislative definition of a "person aggrieved".
A BHP subsidiary unreasonably docked by 5% the wages of Pilbara power workers who engaged in protected partial work bans, the FWC has ruled, reducing the discount to 2% after registering "significant concerns" with the resources giant's calculation methodology.
A serial-offending IR advisory business has drawn criticism from the FWC for setting "an unacceptably low bar", this time after it failed to check that it correctly filed a worker's unfair dismissal claim within the 21-day limit.
RBA monetary policy board member and former FWC president Iain Ross has dismissed fears Australia could experience a damaging wage-price spiral despite the recent sharp rises in inflation
ASIC's pursuit of former Super Retail chief executive Anthony Heraghty over his alleged failure to disclose a relationship with the head of HR could flow through to influence how boards identify and manage personal conflicts of interest, says a leading commercial lawyer.
A marine superintendent who unsuccessfully challenged a cruise operator's right to stand him down during the Covid-19 pandemic has failed to have the decision belatedly anonymised, after a FWC full bench expressed doubt that it could affect his job prospects.
