The FWC has declared after eight unfair dismissal applications and 24 matters in total over two years that it will no longer entertain a persistent worker's quest for satisfaction through the tribunal.
An employer that used the wrong company name in its bargaining notice has failed to convince the FWC that it amounted to a minor procedural or technical error that it should overlook when considering whether to approve its agreement.
The CFMEU construction and general division's ACT branch spent almost $300,000 in three years on security at the Murrumbateman home of its then secretary, Jason O'Mara, after a drive-by shooting at his home in early 2019, according to documents lodged with the ROC.
A FWC member has expressed concern that a new model award clause preventing employers from directing workers to take unpaid leave during shutdowns will lead to more disputes over rejected annual leave requests.
A leading academic analyst's reassessment of ABS union membership data shows that the drop in density isn't quite as "dire" as the headline figures suggest, while new statistics show union membership in the US continuing its slow decline to just 6% in the private sector (down from 6.1%) and 10.1% overall (down from 10.3%).
The FWC has permitted an Aboriginal domestic violence service that employs 12 lawyers and a HR manager to engage an external lawyer to defend an unfair dismissal case.
A big employer's failure to give union representatives a "heads up" that it would impose a vaccination mandate did not necessarily render its subsequent dismissal of 25 workers unfair, the FWC has found.
A listed company's "extraordinary" admission that it failed to correct workers who mistakenly believed they had to be union members to negotiate a deal has torpedoed its bid to terminate its agreement.
The FWC has compensated a worker sacked for making "racist" comments, finding her employer's handling of her dismissal "appalling" and that it had been "very unfair to label her a racist person".
Queensland Industrial Court President Peter Davis has recused himself from deciding an appeal brought by a leader of "red union" NPAQ after she took issue with a letter to the State's IR Minister that was cited in Parliament when introducing legislation to rein-in unregistered unions.
