A four-member FWC bench failed to properly consider whether an experienced train driver sacked after receiving a two-year community corrections order for high-range drink driving was notified of the reason for his dismissal and given an opportunity to respond, a full Federal Court has found today.
Tugboat operator Svitzer has been ordered to extend a rating's fixed-term contract after the FWC speculated that his senior role at the MUA was the real reason he was the only member of his crew not offered continuing employment.
A leading men's fashion brand is seeking to terminate its 2014 agreement after transferring more than 160 retail employees to the higher-paying award when the deal nominally expired under the mistaken belief that it would automatically stop covering them.
In its first decision since pay secrecy penalties took effect this month, the FWC has rejected an employer's bid to redact a "commercially sensitive" list of clients included in a proposed agreement.
The Senate has today passed the Albanese Government's latest tranche of changes to the Fair Work Act, which include boosting flexible unpaid parental leave from 30 days over 24 months to 100 days.
In a penalty ruling featuring the Fair Work Act's rarely-used "serious contravention" provision, an Indian restaurant operator and its director have been fined $150,000 and $50,000 respectively for "flagrant[ly]" underpaying and demanding cash back from two cooks threatened over their visa status.
Apple says it expects to put a new agreement to retail workers next month as it resists RAFFWU's bid to axe the tech giant's 2014 deal, which the SDA also contends is replete with "palpable and entrenched unfairness" but refuses to support or oppose terminating while bargaining.
A FWC member has stopped short of accusing a "lawyer" of peddling false hope among deactivated Uber drivers and riders while dismissing the latest of 50 near-identical unfair dismissal applications to land on her desk in the past six months.
