A FWC full bench has found a presidential member denied two workers procedural fairness when he took the "precipitous step" of dismissing their general protections applications before they received his email warning he might do so because of their failure to lodge submissions in reply.
An executive on workers compensation for a "psychological injury" related to a stumble and strain while working from home has failed to secure stop-bullying orders against her employer and a HR business partner or establish they put her at risk by asking her to return to the office following a domestic violence incident.
An employer must pay more than $30,000 compensation to a manager sacked over suspicions that he was taking it for a ride over sick leave, a fact only revealed under questioning by a FWC member.
An employer forced a burlesque performer to resign from her "dream job" as a result of its late payment of wages and the business's "persistent disorganisation", the FWC has found.
The continuing power struggle between the RTBU's Victorian branch and the leadership of its locomotive division has again played out in court, division secretary Paris Jolly failing on appeal to prove that the union took adverse action against him because of an unsuccessful demerger attempt.
A leaner public service under a Coalition administration would be expected to toil in the office five days a week, because government employees on more than $200,000 a year are refusing to "go to back to work", Opposition Leader Peter Dutton told journalists this morning.
Less than a quarter of private sector employers have an average gender pay gap within the target range, but 56% have reduced their gap, according to expanded, searchable WGEA data from the second year of public pay gap reporting.
The UWU has defeated a federal government attempt to end strikes by Serco employees running immigration detention centres, after the FWC found it not unusual for detainees to climb on roofs, set off fire alarms or endure brief lockdowns, as occurred during the industrial action.
Interested parties have until 4pm next Monday to comment on draft employer and employee surveys commissioned as a key component of the FWC's bid to develop an award clause removing impediments to working from home.
