The Victorian Supreme Court has found that an investment management company repudiated the employment contract of its chief financial officer, triggering his entitlement to a $250,000 termination payment.
FWA has upheld Linfox’s summary dismissal of a long-haul truck driver for falsifying a daily worksheet that indicated when he was too fatigued to continue working.
The CFMEU's pulp and paper workers' branch has successfully challenged FWA's approval of an agreement negotiated between a NSW employer and the TCFU on the basis that the BOOT was assessed against the wrong award.
Big rise in working hours among older women, but limited scope for further increases, says PC; ABCC investigating alleged underpayments on government housing project; Equal Remuneration Case hearings to commence on January 31; and FWO provides advice for flood-affected employers and employees.
Fair Work Australia has ordered the reinstatement of a bread delivery truck driver sacked by Goodman Fielder for urinating into a stormwater drain in a loading dock and failing to wash his hands.
Tiger Airways' Australian pilots have approved protected industrial action including work bans and strikes in a bid to get their first enterprise agreement over the line at the low-cost carrier.
A HR manager was either incompetent or lacked the ability to deal with difficult IR issues, a Federal Magistrate has found, after revealing she was instrumental in unlawfully denying an NUW member his right to be represented by his union in disciplinary meetings.
A senior public servant sacked over the botched sale of a federal government asset has won reinstatement after Fair Work Australia found his unblemished 24-year record prior to the incident should have been given greater weight.
Fair Work Australia, rather than the AEC, is required to ensure the group of employees eligible to participate in a protected action ballot have been properly identified, a full bench of the tribunal has found.
