Just over half of BHP's Mining Area C and South Flank iron ore mineworkers have voted to accept the company's proposed unilateral deal, which it says is "industry-leading", while the unions have called it a bare-bones "baseline" agreement.
The FWC has ordered Amazon to reinstate a worker dismissed for inappropriate Slack messages, finding the company's "casual" approach to using the platform includes "frequent jokes, swearing and venting".
A judge has rejected a supervisor's claims that managers and colleagues subjected her to years of s-xual harassment and discrimination based on her race, s-x and multiple pregnancies, placing significant weight on her failure to raise complaints with HR.
Parliament has today passed with amendments the Albanese Government's legislation to create a pathway for employers to pay historical debts related to unpaid portable long service leave levies that responds to two Federal Court decisions.
The United Firefighters Union is denying that it engaged "removed" former head of the CFMEU construction and general division's Queensland branch, Michael Ravbar, as the FWC launches a probe into whether it did so in breach of the RO Act.
The just transition authority has applied to the FWC for a determination to support workers at the Yallourn power station, which is scheduled to close in mid-2028.
The Minns Government has made four new appointments to the NSW IRC and promoted a commissioner to deputy president, as new powers take effect that will increase the tribunal's workload.
The FWC has endorsed AGL's grounds for rejecting a customer service consultant's flexible work request, but nevertheless ordered it to conduct a trial requiring her to attend the office for four hours on just 12 occasions over six months so she can continue to care for her incontinent, dementia-affected mother.
The Greens are seeking to disallow a part of the payday super regulations that it says reintroduces discriminatory provisions exempting large employers, with McDonald's the leading example, from having to pay super to under-18s working up to 30 hours a week.
