Resources giant Santos has been ordered to pay $65,000 to a worker sacked for telling a contractor to "take a sickie" during a strike, the FWC finding the dismissal harsh after weighing his long and unblemished career.
The UK's peak union body is calling for the Sunak Government to drop its "draconian" anti-strike legislation, which it says will threaten one in five workers' right to walk off the job by forcing them to work and sacking them if they don't comply.
A managing director has been hit with $125,000 in damages and penalties for failing to pay out a worker's entitlements and threatening to "destroy" his and his family's lives.
The Albanese Government has ratified ILO conventions setting a minimum working age and seeking to prevent workplace harassment and violence, with Skills and Training Minister Brendan O'Connor telling this year's international labour conference that tripartism "has never been so important".
Former ACTU leader and Gillard Government climate change minister Greg Combet will chair the Albanese Government's body that will oversee a "just transition" as climate change transforms the energy and resources sectors.
The UK's Sunak Conservative Government is consulting on a new statutory code to deter businesses from "firing and re-hiring" employees by empowering IR tribunals to order employers to pay 25% extra compensation if they fail to comply.
The FWC has granted a first-time entry permit to a CFMMEU organiser with an extensive criminal past that includes assault, auto theft, trespass, breaching a restraining order, property damage and weapons convictions after hearing he turned his life around following a 10-month jail term in 2017.
The FWC has awarded zero compensation to an unvaccinated former Boeing worker at the same time as it has lambasted the subsidiary that unfairly sacked him for failing to inform him of the result of his redeployment bid.
IR Minister Tony Burke says the Albanese Government is considering a multi-factor test as part of its Same Job, Same Pay proposals, after resources employer group AREEA argued this is "critical" to delineate between "traditional labour hire" and other arrangements.
Despite the FWO receiving only a modest funding increase for a bigger remit, Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker has told a Senate Estimates hearing that her organisation has scope to redirect some of the "generous" allocation it received when it took over some of the now-axed ABCC's functions.
