A Rio Tinto subsidiary didn't stand down a mineworker when he refused to move from a 40-hour roster to 44 hours; it merely accepted his refusal to work, a Federal Court full bench has found.
The CEPU has complained to the Australian Federal Police and is seeking Fair Work Australia's intervention over allegations that Telstra managers secretly listened-in to union phone hook-ups.
A senior manager and his employer breached freedom of association laws when they refused to pay a receptionist award rates and told her to resign if she wanted to pursue the matter, the Federal Magistrates Court has found.
Bargaining disputes at the University of NSW and Victoria University have escalated after the institutions stood down employees for participating in bans on transmitting students' results.
The Federal Magistrates Court has imposed heavy fines on a former Queensland BLF official who assaulted the chief operating officer of a construction company.
FWA has refused to vary the retail modern award to cut casuals' minimum shift lengths from three to two hours, despite finding that the move to a three-hour minimum had harmed young people's employment prospects in some parts of regional Australia.
An employer has been ordered to pay a young fibreglass technician almost $26,000 in compensation and damages for unlawfully sacking him after seven month s of employment because of his age.
The National Retail Association has failed in an extraordinary bid to have FWA Commissioner Ingrid Asbury step aside from matters involving it because of apprehended bias, while she has blamed the "non-responsive" employer group for delays in approving its members' agreements.
