A pharmacy worker sacked for requesting unpaid domestic violence leave has been awarded more than $17,000 compensation after the FWC rejected the employer's claims that performance issues sparked the dismissal.
The Federal Court is today expected to discontinue a mooted $1 billion class action accusing a now-folded workforce management company of misclassifying Telstra technicians as subcontractors, while Shine Lawyers says the workers cannot access the FEG scheme because of the High Court's Jamsek and Personnel Contracting decisions.
A FWC full bench led by President Adam Hatcher has reminded members that they should not undertake or order conciliation in general protections disputes until all jurisdictional issues are resolved.
The FWC has doubled the days sought for UGL rail service workers to vote on protected action as it seeks to provide sufficient time to bring the parties together under new compulsory conciliation laws.
Visy workers in South Australia will receive a backdated 8.6% pay boost after the FWC found that their deal's annual rise clause applied the state's CPI figure rather than the lower national inflation rate.
The RBA is set to begin making $1.15 million in backpayments to about 1200 current and former employees, after the beleaguered PwC completed a review of its underpayments.
The NTEU is calling on Monash University to rectify $9 million in alleged underpayments to casual teachers after the FWC rejected a bid to retrospectively vary its agreement, while its vice chancellor and soon-to-be Victorian Governor says that without a "grand bargain" their payment systems will remain an "unproductive source of contestation".
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.
