A female Qantas pilot suing the airline for alleged gender discrimination and s-xual harassment must re-plead her case after a court found her claim that the workplace was "hostile to women" to be "unsatisfactorily imprecise".
In a significant decision on directors' liability for underpayments, a court has found that although the co-founder of Chatime was unaware the bubble-tea chain was in breach of workplace laws, he understood enough about award obligations around casual and weekend penalty rates to be considered complicit.
A cruise company has failed to convince the FWC to more than double the protected action ballot period sought for CFMMEU maritime division members to consider strikes and work bans on the basis it would better enable "meaningful" compulsory conciliation.
An overseas worker allegedly sacked after objecting to his employer placing an activity tracking app on his PC has failed to have his late general protections application accepted.
A court has pared back a worker's general protections claim after holding that she did not have a right to work from home, but has signalled that it will consider whether her employer bullied or discriminated against her when it dealt with her WFH request.
The Albanese Government's embrace of the Coalition-initiated AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact looms as a policy flashpoint for unions and rank-and-file party members at this week's ALP national conference in Brisbane.
In figures that don't align with the RBA's warnings about a wage-price spiral, new ABS figures show private sector rates of pay excluding bonuses are rising at an unchanged 3.8% a year.
The FWC is poised to shelve a three-day hearing of RAFFWU's bid to terminate Apple's 2014 agreement if workers this weekend vote up a proposed new deal, which has won the backing of both the SDA and the ASU.
"Improvements" to bargaining and increased wages bills have produced a "win-win" situation for businesses and workers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told an audience of employers gathered to celebrate the Ai Group's 150th anniversary.
Woolworths has failed in its bid to vary the Retail Award to "clarify" that the instrument covers its burgeoning online fulfilment operations, avoiding potentially significant knock-on effects for the e-commerce, road transport and distribution industries.
