An unlisted mining exploration company has failed to claw back legal costs that included a 14-day trial defending claims brought by its former "whistleblower" chief executive, after the Federal Court found his rejection of two settlement offers justified when he stood to receive "substantial" penalties for workplace breaches.
Queensland Health has been ordered to backpay a nurse for an unpaid suspension imposed while investigating a complaint that he "grabbed" a patient's t-sticles in an attempt to revive them after they fainted while showering, a tribunal finding it failed to inform him that it took into account previous allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
A paramedic who claimed that details of her dismissal case over alleged theft of drugs in the workplace could incite an allegedly abusive former partner has failed to win a suppression order.
The FWC has found that an employer failed to implement recommendations from two bullying investigations conducted by the Ai Group and should now consider leadership training for the former manager of a worker who quit after the filing of the dispute case.
The FWC will refer a law firm to the Fair Work Ombudsman after it emerged during general protections proceedings that it might have flouted the Legal Services Award by making unauthorised deductions from a worker's wages.
The Flying Kangaroo and the TWU have reached an in-principle deal to settle the union's same-job, same-pay application for labour suppliers to Qantas Freight, while the FWC has approved the FAAA's SJSP application that substantially lifts pay for in-house and external on-hire workers at the airline.
The ETU, CFMEU and AMWU WA branches claim they have secured the first Pilbara agreement endorsed by all of the State's construction unions that provides a 2:1 rostering arrangement and 12-hour shifts.
A 63-year-old brothel receptionist summarily sacked via an intermediary after 15 years of "loyal" service in the "happy little family" workplace will receive near-maximum compensation, after a FWC ruling.
A psychologist who fled Darwin for regional NSW in "disturbing" circumstances has failed to persuade the FWC that her employer lacked reasonable business grounds to deny her request to continue servicing clients on Zoom.
