The FWC has panned rail operator Qube for "reneging" on an in-principle enterprise deal with the RTBU, after rejecting the union's bid to terminate industrial action that allegedly presented a threat to community safety and welfare.
One of the world's largest gold mining companies should have taken a worker's stress levels into account before accepting a resignation prompted by an allergic reaction to eating a cake's icing, the FWC has found.
The Albanese Government is pursuing a "misguided" IR agenda that it is "driven by outdated union fixations", according to Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox, but the ACTU says polling released this morning underlines the strong public support for change.
Large corporates and universities accounted for almost two-thirds of the $509 million in unpaid wages and entitlements recovered by the FWO in 2022-23 on behalf of more than 250,000 workers, the workplace watchdog revealed today.
The FWC has cleared the way for RAFFWU to ballot its Woolworths members on whether to take multiple forms of industrial action and will require the supermarket giant to attend a conciliation conference next Wednesday in what the unregistered union says is a "historic" win.
A FWC bench has taken a big stick to a member's decision to bin a purportedly-late general protections application, observing that the worker's mental health issues should have raised "alarm bells" and that the commissioner was wrong to both conclude he could not assess the case's merits and that the dismissal was not contested.
A UK tribunal has found that a male manager harassed a male worker by touching him inappropriately and suggestively singing a song about propositioning someone for s-x.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has today outlined a "happy ending" case study that demonstrates the greater level of resources the Commission now applies to bargaining disputes, canvassed some early success from the new post-PABO conciliation process and predicted that multi-employer bargaining law and practice will "develop fairly slowly".
CFMMEU leader Michael Ravbar has been skewered with his second personal penalty in four months for "blatantly" breaching entry rights when delaying work at a major project to promote an industry super fund during unauthorised early morning barbecues.
The FWC will this afternoon hear a RTBU bid to terminate rail freight operator Qube's lockout of train drivers, on the basis that is endangering community safety and welfare.
