A Uniting Church reverend who received monthly payslips, superannuation contributions and Jobkeeper COVID-19 payments was not an employee capable of challenging his sacking for opposing same-s-x marriage, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has upheld a finding that Qube Ports cannot retrospectively vary expired agreements that no longer cover it in an attempt to avoid a major lawsuit over deductions of "gap" payments from up to 1000 wharfies' remuneration.
A full bench has vacated tomorrow's hearing of a Virgin subsidiary's bid for an intractable bargaining declaration after earlier refusing to adjourn the test case while the airline puts its latest offer to WA engineers for a vote, with the ALAEA saying it will immediately increase their pay by 13.5%.
The ALP's draft 2023 national platform says a Federal Labor Government should make it easier to initiate test cases of modern awards, "both within and across awards".
A judge has rejected a sales director's claim that his employer sacked him within hours of him telling his manager he intended to take unpaid parental leave on the birth of his two surrogate children.
After having his bid for a new entry permit refused in 2021, CFMMEU construction and general division WA branch organiser Walter "Vinnie" Molina has this week got across the line after telling the FWC he had learnt the "value and privilege a permit carries" in the wake of two "significantly hamstrung" years organising without one.
An accountant has won a rare interim anti-bullying order after the FWC agreed her employer "inappropriately" bypassed her lawyers by directly emailing a request that she attend a disciplinary meeting the following day.
The Albanese Government's review of higher education is calling for "urgent" attention to employee underpayments, by measures such as overhauling payroll and time recording systems.
A new FWC member has credited his mother-of-seven's "second-to-none" conciliation and mediation skills for his early-age lessons in conflict resolution, while a second new recruit has expressed his appreciation for his parents giving him every chance in life, lamenting that he "probably didn't take many of them".
