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In a significant judgment on the statutory nature of a "proposed enterprise agreement", a Federal Court has rejected arguments that rail unions lost protection of their industrial action once the bargaining focus changed from a single to a multi-employer deal.
Virgin Australia has failed to reverse the reinstatement of a flight attendant sacked for drinking a glass of prosecco within eight hours of a shift, and further accused of breaching its fatigue management policy by having s-x after requesting a shift change due to tiredness.
A worker's continued refusal to take responsibility for a workplace car accident and his "highly inappropriate" emails criticising the investigation of the collision warranted his dismissal, the FWC has ruled.
The FWC has suppressed a document filed by a proposed new nursing union in support of its registration, after the ANMF told the tribunal it contains "serious allegations of fraud and impropriety" against it and some officials.
Ahead of a full bench hearing next month, the ACTU says the FWC should grant the SDA's landmark supported bargaining application because it meets the key "common interests" prerequisite, while McDonald's argues that its franchisees don't meet the criteria.
A FWC full bench has found a teacher had a right to take five days of paid parental leave as the non-primary caregiver on the birth of his child, plus a further 11 weeks of PPL when he later became its primary caregiver.
FWC President Adam Hatcher late yesterday afternoon issued a temporary s424 order for rail unions to almost immediately suspend disruptive industrial action against Sydney Trains and NSW Trains.
The HSU has appointed former NUW national secretary Charlie Donnelly as interim administrator of the HSU Victorian No 1 branch, after the Federal Court restrained embattled branch secretary Diana Asmar from carrying out her duties.
A FWC presidential member has lambasted a union's legal team for leaving an illiterate member "high and dry" when deciding not to pursue a "more than arguable" dismissal challenge that ultimately led to reinstatement with full backpay.
