A DEWR review of the procedures available for small claims of up to $100,000 recommends legislative change to enable successful applicants to win costs and an automatic exemption from filing fees in some circumstances, while it also canvasses establishing a small claims jurisdiction within the FWC or creating an industrial court.
In a decision weighing how close to "perfection" an employee's standards need to be, the FWC has upheld the sacking of an experienced scientist accused of "manipulating" data for a single BHP soil sample among thousands he helped test.
Ahead of a 10-day full bench hearing of a bid to significantly shake-up the retail award, the ACTU has hit out at employers backing measures to "buy-out" core conditions for workers on as little as $53,680 a year, ditch "smokos" and introduce split shifts.
The Federal Court has slapped a five-year suppression order on a Channel Seven producer's general protections claim, settled on the basis that details would be kept confidential.
A FWC full bench has rejected a coal mining company's bid to limit same-job, same-pay orders to on-hire workers performing weekday rosters permitted under the host's enterprise agreement, and to exclude those on weekend rosters.
The FWC has issued an entry permit to a NTEU organiser and Newcastle Council Greens councillor after weighing her arrest for offences while participating in a climate protest.
The FWC has swiftly signed off on 20,000 more early childhood education and care workers being added to a landmark multi-employer supported bargaining agreement that accesses a 15% pay rise over two years, while offering pointers to smooth the way for sectoral participants expected to follow suit.
A large childcare operator has been ordered to pay more than $8000 compensation to a sacked worker falsely accused of telling a parent about her tenuous visa status in supposed breach of a company policy found by the FWC to impose no constraint on such interactions.
A former organiser who claims the UWU sacked her for exacerbating post-amalgamation "tensions" by pushing for a staff agreement has won a three-month extension to file her second unfair dismissal application, after a full bench found her first one barred as she lodged it while pursuing an adverse action case.
