In the latest of a rash of PABO decisions since new Secure Jobs provisions took effect on June 6, the FWC has ruled that an employer's bid to bypass unions and put its agreement to a vote provides exceptional circumstances to warrant using a non-AEC ballot agent.
In the first test of new supported bargaining laws, the FWC will hear in mid-August the landmark application to authorise multi-employer negotiations involving 65 employers and 12,000 workers in the early childhood education and care sector.
A HR administrator who exhibited "delusions of grandeur" in her belief that she had been promoted to HR manager has had her general protections claim thrown out by the FWC.
A full Federal Court has ruled a major contractor that lost its aged care contract after almost 20 years could not rely on the "ordinary and customary turnover of labour" provision that would have relieved it of the obligation of making redundancy payments to its employees.
A pharmacy worker sacked for requesting unpaid domestic violence leave has been awarded more than $17,000 compensation after the FWC rejected the employer's claims that performance issues sparked the dismissal.
The Federal Court is today expected to discontinue a mooted $1 billion class action accusing a now-folded workforce management company of misclassifying Telstra technicians as subcontractors, while Shine Lawyers says the workers cannot access the FEG scheme because of the High Court's Jamsek and Personnel Contracting decisions.
A FWC full bench led by President Adam Hatcher has reminded members that they should not undertake or order conciliation in general protections disputes until all jurisdictional issues are resolved.
The FWC has doubled the days sought for UGL rail service workers to vote on protected action as it seeks to provide sufficient time to bring the parties together under new compulsory conciliation laws.
Visy workers in South Australia will receive a backdated 8.6% pay boost after the FWC found that their deal's annual rise clause applied the state's CPI figure rather than the lower national inflation rate.
The RBA is set to begin making $1.15 million in backpayments to about 1200 current and former employees, after the beleaguered PwC completed a review of its underpayments.
