The Federal Court has today refused the TWU's bid for reinstatement of some 2000 ground-handling workers who had their jobs outsourced by the airline at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
WA IR Minister Stephen Dawson says he is urgently seeking Federal IR Minister Michaelia Cash's agreement to having the McGowan Government regulate all WA local government workers, following yesterday's passage of legislation overhauling the State IR system.
BHP's internal labour hire operation is facing a union challenge to a key element of its model, which holds that its workers are not attached to particular mine sites or regions and can have their jobs relocated anywhere on the east coast.
Fair Work Commission President Iain Ross told IR Minister Michaelia Cash that if Deputy President Lyndall Dean repeated her misconduct when she made contentious anti-vaccination comments in a September decision, it would be time to consider removing her from office.
The Federal Court has granted ClubsNSW an injunction restraining a "whistleblowing" former anti-money-laundering compliance auditor from waging a media campaign while it sues him over leaked documents, ordering him to also pay 60% of the costs of obtaining it.
A full Federal Court has ordered the retrial of a pilots' union's claims that Regional Express threatened to take adverse action against cadets when asking for a "solemn promise" that they would stay at the airline's Wagga Wagga academy rather than cost the company an extra $100 cost per night by sleeping at a motel.
The FWC has in an instructive decision about reasonable additional travel when considering alternative employment found that a salesperson was justified in turning down an offer requiring a total of 40 minutes extra commuting.
Corporate unease over payroll systems will only have grown today after Bupa became the latest big employer to disclose widespread underpayments, the Australian arm of the global health group revealing it owes 18,000 employees up to $75 million before interest and superannuation.
A Sydney Water employee whose image was used in a suggestive OHS poster has been cleared to pursue more than $1 million in damages after the FWC ruled that a series of failures in her employer's response forced her to resign.
