The president of a nursing "red union" faces the sack from her hospital job after failing to persuade an appeal court that unauthorised media comments fell under protected industrial activity.
A FWC full bench has extended a CBA worker's AWA because reverting to the enterprise agreement would reduce her long service leave pay by more than $17,000, but it refused the bank's request to keep the details of the individual contract confidential.
The FWC has ordered the reinstatement of a dump truck driver dismissed after a "deeply flawed" investigation into allegations he exposed a female trainee to explicit images while passing around his phone.
A FWC full bench has this afternoon reserved its decision on whether to approve Apple Australia's enterprise agreement, after hearing objections from RAFFWU.
The FWC's decision today to deregister the Queensland-based Bacon Factories Union is the "harbinger of doom" for small employee organisations, according to rules specialist John Payne, principal of Hall Payne Lawyers.
A FWC member incorrectly apportioned the burden of proof and applied the wrong test for "reasonable" self-defence in ordering reinstatement of a train driver sacked after fighting with a stranger on a station concourse, a full bench has found.
The FWC might refer a "regrettable, expensive and damaging episode" to the South Australian Correctional Services Department, after it failed to allow a worker on remand to contact his employer, and the employer dismissed him for failing to attend work.
Higher job mobility and labour hoarding might weigh on short-term labour productivity growth, but could also boost it in the long-term, the RBA says in new research.
In the wake of Chevron and unions backing a FWC recommendation to resolve their bargaining dispute, a FWC full bench has today temporarily adjourned the company's intractable bargaining declaration application, but has left the door open for unions to file a strike-out motion.
Offshore Alliance and ETU members have backed the Chevron peace deal brokered by FWC mediator Bernie Riordan, after the company's surprise acceptance of the deal last night.
