The FWC has refused to extend a zombie deal, ruling workers should not have to "endure [its] substandard conditions" to give the employer time to implement a new payroll system.
A FWC deputy president has taken aim at a full bench's quashing of one of his decisions, saying it appears members are "expected to essentially run around in a series of ever decreasing circles" when parties change their representation status.
An IR expert says there is "no time to delay" for those needing to prepare before key Loopholes Bill measures take effect, while employer peak bodies claim new rights for union delegates have "huge implications" for how businesses engage with workers.
The Federal Court has refused to restrain the United Workers Union from dismissing two organisers who claim it subjected them to unlawful adverse action, finding the union's evidence "all-but-overwhelming".
The FWC has upheld the "procedurally inadequate" sacking of a chef who bit and slapped colleagues but has reproached his employer for failing to act sooner to curb his conduct, finding it unacceptable even where consensual and unable to be justified as "horseplay or friendly banter".
The lobby group representing Australia's mining goliaths says the last-minute Senate deal to pass slabs of the Closing Loopholes legislation amounts to the Albanese Government declaring "war" on the resources sector and the national economy.
The Senate has today passed a substantial part of the Albanese Government's Closing Loopholes Bill after agreeing to a deal with key crossbench senators Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock.
An employer seeking to be covered by an existing agreement could potentially "operate in a better way" if a clause granting five days leave in return for working on three public holidays is removed, but the FWC has found the change would deny employees the chance to use the entitlement as a bargaining chip.
A senior FWC member should have considered a worker's "genuine belief" that he lodged his general protections claim on time, even though he had in fact filed a blank unfair dismissal form, a full bench has held in tackling a novel question about when an application is made.
