Commissioner Stuart Wood KC, addressing today's initial hearing for his inquiry into the CFMEU in Queensland, expressed his gratitude for the "unsolicited written commitment" from union administrator Mark Irving KC to cooperate with the probe.
"Serious" flaws in an employer's s-xual harassment investigation, in tandem with its expectation the worker would continue working alongside her alleged harasser, forced her to resign, the FWC has found.
The FWC has today ruled a paramedic ineligible for primary carers' parental leave to tend to for his six-month old baby, because the enterprise agreement covering him only enables carers of newborns to access the entitlement.
A commissioner who holds 200 Woolworths shares has refused to recuse herself from an anti-bullying case involving the supermarket giant, because the amount of shares she owns is insignificant.
A six-week NSW IRC full bench hearing of the public sector nurses' "comprehensive" claim for a 35% pay rise to remedy gender undervaluation will begin this morning, after nurses rejected a base offer of 9% over three years.
The FWC has rejected a bullying complaint after finding the Department of Finance put the worker on a three-day week, while he recovered from a previous "toxic" job, so he could spend the other two days "trying to resolve his workplace grievances".
The Albanese Government says a consultation process has established that there is strong support for a registration process for the personal care workers who make up the bulk of the direct aged care sector workforce, along with harmonisation of accreditation with the disability care sector.
A senior FWC member has rejected a costs claim, observing that with rising numbers of self-represented applicants using the tribunal to pursue grievances, its directions are "not always treated with the same reverence and compliance" as in other forums.
In the wake of NT public sector employees rejecting a 3% a year wage offer, the Finocchiaro Government has escalated a bargaining dispute to the FWC, after baselessly accusing unions of supporting the previous Labor Government's wage cap, which the CLP at the time vehemently opposed.
A FWC full bench has quashed a finding that Bondi's iconic Sculpture By the Sea event did not sack an art installer, finding a manager's email calling for a "pause on our working relationship" conveyed an intention to terminate his employment.
