The FWC has backed the dismissal of a medically unfit warehouse worker no longer able to fulfil the inherent requirements of his role, finding his employer had no obligation to engage with a private eye he hired to conduct a workplace investigation on his behalf.
A leading labour economist has scotched suggestions that Australia has experienced a US-style "great resignation", explaining last year's higher job quit rate as a "catch-up".
A union representative has praised one of the FWC's newest members for her "gloves-off advocacy" on behalf of employers, while offering a greeting in Maltese as a nod to their shared heritage.
The FWC has acceded to an employee's request to terminate a moribund security agreement covering a 500-strong workforce, after weighing conflicting views from employees about whether it should be scrapped.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke is set to take the first steps to curb the ABCC's powers from tomorrow, as it moves toward meeting its election commitment of axing the watchdog.
In the first case of its kind against Woolworths, the retailer has today been ordered to pay an unregistered union $10,000 after a court found the supermarket breached workplace laws by pressuring a delegate who raised concerns about car park safety.
A law firm has won a rare indemnity costs order against a solicitor found to have strung out an unfair dismissal case so he could agitate underpayment claims.
The UWU has closed Hospo Voice, Australia's first "digital-only" union, while maintaining it has provided valuable lessons and tools as organised labour seeks to counter its weakness in attracting and retaining young workers.
A FWC presidential member has issued a 10-point rebuttal of COVID-19-related arguments put by a sacked unvaccinated worker, to help her to consider whether to proceed with positions likely to be "irrelevant" in her unfair dismissal claim and that have been "emphatically rejected in numerous cases" before the tribunal and courts.
The Productivity Commission is calling for submissions on the costs and benefits of an extended unpaid leave entitlement for informal carers, in a newly-released issues paper.
