Super funds' revised disclosure regulations overturned; Awards to reflect paid FDV entitlement; BCA's Westacott moving on; and Melbourne Uni hit with second FWO prosecution.
As Telstra next week prepares to defend a Federal Court class action on behalf of employees who refused to comply with its COVID-19 vaccination policy, the FWC has held that it met consultation requirements and "bent over backwards" to ensure fairness before sacking a worker with a moral objection to being jabbed.
Two of Australia's biggest unions are at loggerheads over a push by Woolworths to change the coverage of workers at the supermarket's online fulfilment centres, a move the UWU believes is partly motivated by the retailer's concerns about multi-employer bargaining.
In what might signal a tougher stance under a Labor government, the FWO has commenced its first prosecution of a franchisor for alleged underpayment of workers by franchisees.
A former Coalition Resources Minister has criticised "unjustified vaccine mandates" while introducing legislation to prevent employers using COVID-19 vaccination status to take "adverse action" against an employee or prospective employee.
Fortescue charged over harassment documents; Wesfarmers' near-$5M bill for underpayments; Review into PC s-xual harassment claims; Work and care inquiry deadline extended.
A manager's email to a client suggesting a listed company might be overcharging almost $70,000 a month constituted a valid dismissal reason, as did sending a confidential document to a former employee even though it was discovered post-sacking, the FWC has held.
The Albanese Government has today introduced legislation that will allow publication of gender pay gaps for individual employers with 100 or more workers, replacing current sectoral or industry-wide data.
Uber has failed to repel a high-profile challenge to claims it has no employment relationship with drivers, but has succeeded in having the case as currently pleaded jettisoned by an unimpressed judge.
