An accountant has won a rare interim anti-bullying order after the FWC agreed her employer "inappropriately" bypassed her lawyers by directly emailing a request that she attend a disciplinary meeting the following day.
The Albanese Government's review of higher education is calling for "urgent" attention to employee underpayments, by measures such as overhauling payroll and time recording systems.
A new FWC member has credited his mother-of-seven's "second-to-none" conciliation and mediation skills for his early-age lessons in conflict resolution, while a second new recruit has expressed his appreciation for his parents giving him every chance in life, lamenting that he "probably didn't take many of them".
In the latest of a rash of significant rulings on protected action ballots, the FWC's national practice leader for bargaining has insisted a bus company provide employee details despite its "uncommon concession" to rely on a union's database alone to develop a roll of voters.
The Albanese Government's appointment to the FWC of more than a dozen new members, mostly from union or union-friendly backgrounds, as part of it promise to "rebalance" the institution, still has a way to go, DEWR data has confirmed.
Unions have won an upfront 8.6% pay rise for offshore drill workers, ahead of an important vote on Chevron’s proposed Wheatstone LNG platform non-union deal, which they have strongly opposed.
In submissions opposing a Virgin subsidiary's bid for an intractable bargaining declaration, the ALAEA says it will neither support nor oppose the airline's latest offer if put to a vote and they are only apart on a request to lift a cap on redundancy payouts from 20 to 52 weeks.
A labour hire company that sought to convince a FWC full bench to grant a four-year extension to its 2007 zombie deal due to the pressures of the pandemic and economic conditions, including its workers' "wage demands", has won just an extra seven months.
A FWC full bench has acknowledged a railway station manager's "ambitious" claim that a member went "wholly outside" the available options when she upheld his sacking for failing to disclose serious criminal charges.
