The FSU says Commonwealth Bank retail workers forced to work through their 10-minute tea breaks for the past six years will be compensated, after it won a $3 million settlement of its $45 million Federal Court claim.
The IEU's WA branch has hit back at an employer group's submissions in its Catholic schools single interest multi-employer test case, warning against elevating the status of "irrelevant" views and declaring its construction of the legislation could create a "peculiar result".
The FWC has upheld the sacking of a Coca Cola regional technician who deliberately set the cruise control on his work van above the speed limit and repeatedly overshot it by up to 18km, rejecting claims about the alleged inaccuracy of the employer's monitoring technology.
Creative Workplaces Council to set sector-specific pay, safety standards, says Burke; Federal Court IR seminar/webinar next month; and UK cost of living crisis driving WFH rise: ACAS.
The NTEU has failed to block the approval of a CPSU-backed university agreement on the basis that casuals were not "employed at the time" of the access period and vote, with the tribunal instead finding they accepted offers of continuing employment.
The FWC has upheld an employer's decision to sack an electrician for s-xually harassing behaviour that included asking a new supervisor on first meeting him whether he "liked to f-ck".
The loss of at least $835 million a year to wage theft underlines the importance of supporting the Albanese Government's third tranche reforms to criminalise the practice, according to a McKell Institute report also suggesting that new federal laws should "co-exist" with state laws.
Justice Stephen Gageler is set to be the High Court's new leader when incumbent Chief Justice Susan Kiefel retires in November, while NSW Supreme Court judge Robert Beech-Jones will fill the vacancy created by the promotion, the Albanese Government announced this morning.
The FWC has declined to approve an agreement made by a group of workers from a related company ahead of them being transferred across to the entity that was to be covered by the deal, rejecting the employer's contention that it was a minor procedural or technical error.
