An employer's failed bid to confirm whether UWU organisers can enter the independent living homes of people with disabilities illustrates the difficulty the FWC must sometimes face in grappling with the separation of powers, according to a leading labour law expert.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a construction worker sacked on the basis of a clutch of "confected" claims that included alleged commuting challenges after losing his driver's licence and his purported concealment of firearms and pornography charges.
FIFO work is not "other acceptable employment" for retrenched city-based workers accustomed to returning home to their families each night, the FWC has ruled.
Energy giant Woodside has again failed to halt union efforts to force it to the bargaining table for the first time in three decades, after a FWC full bench today upheld a majority support determination for its offshore platform employees.
The Australian Higher Education Industrial Association says it is doing its job by developing a roadmap for securing fast rollover agreements to avoid universities being "roped in" to multi-employer deals.
The Albanese Government's first tranche of IR legislation for 2023 will seek to reinforce the FWC's powers to review and vary default superannuation fund terms in modern awards, an area where the tribunal has previously been constrained by a 2014 court decision.
Economy-wide labour costs have risen modestly in the December quarter as workers' share of income maintains its rebound from record lows, according to ABS national accounts data released today.
"Similarities" with the case of a worker awarded compensation after being shown the door for missing a COVID-19 vaccination deadline have not been enough to persuade the FWC that a public utility unfairly dismissed an employee when it denied him a chance to wait for a Novavax jab.
A majority of Australia's governments have today agreed to incorporate industrial manslaughter provisions in the national model OHS laws, while they unanimously backed an immediate start to preparatory work for a ban on manufactured stone products linked with silicosis and other lung diseases.
