BHP has accused the Albanese Government of "blatantly" seeking to undermine the FWC's independent decision-making by declaring the company's Operations Services internal labour hire arm a key target of the Closing Loopholes legislation.
The Nobel Prize for economic sciences has been awarded to a Harvard professor who has a penchant for historical detective work, digging into gender differences in labour markets that stretch back to the eighteenth century.
The FWC has ordered a car dealer to a pay its former apprentice mechanic three weeks compensation, after it summarily dismissed him for causing the business "reputational harm" when he failed to check a car's brake pads and lied about his error.
The FWC's first intractable bargaining declaration looks set to referred tomorrow for arbitration following a fortnight of further negotiations between the UFU's Victorian branch and Fire Rescue Victoria.
Employment and IR specialists Matthew Follett and John (Jack) Tracey are among 25 barristers promoted to the ranks of senior counsel in Victoria yesterday.
The Australian Education Union told the FWC this afternoon that its revised application for a multi-employer bargaining authorisation for 12 TAFE institutes in Victoria might assuage employer concerns.
The FWC has extended time for a worker who attended the Commission twice to try to submit his unfair dismissal application in person, but because of his "poor" handwriting, tribunal staff encouraged him to lodge online.
The FWC boasts a case clearance rate above 100% while dealing with legislative changes which amount to a "generational shift" in the administration of IR, according to the tribunal's annual report.
A judge who rejected a SDA bid to prioritise its breaks case against McDonald's by staying an earlier RAFFWU-backed class action has contrasted the "lacklustre and misdirected approach" of the country's second-largest union with that of the unregistered, seven-year-old union and its lawyers.
