A senior FWC member has belatedly imposed conditions on an AWU-CFMMEU Offshore Alliance official's entry permit after an employer association revealed he failed to disclose penalties for organising unlawful industrial action.
The ACTU leadership has today won re-election unopposed and pledged that the pandemic will leave behind a legacy of government action to address insecure work.
An FWC full bench has called for the Commission to win stronger powers to curb "serial litigation", after it awarded indemnity costs against a worker who sought to overturn a failed four-year-old reclassification ruling.
A WA TAFE worker among the first out of the blocks to test the Fair Work Act's new casual conversion provisions in the FWC has lost her bid to have the tribunal deal with her permanency dispute because she does not work for a national system employer.
A scaffolding company and its director that sacked a worker for refusing to perform unsafe work, before offering to reinstate him on a probationary period with a warning, must pay more than $25,000 in compensation and penalties for unlawful adverse action.
Labor seeks to extend paid leave to parents of stillborn children; NSW public sector gets paid vaccination leave; Deadline looming for comments on FDV research; and COVID-19 crackdown in Federal Parliament.
The TWU's NSW branch has temporarily taken over the running of the Queensland branch, after an investigation of its governance and the resignation of its secretary, who won election in 2010 with the backing of the union's national office.
An FWC full bench has refused RAFFWU leave to appeal a finding that petitions showing almost 100% of 2000 participating Coles workers want to bargain are not enough to make a majority support determination.
Attorney-General and IR Minister Michaelia Cash has appointed two employment barristers - one a former Freehills employment practice leader - to the Federal Circuit Court.
An Uber driver accused of deliberately driving into a customer has won extra time to file an unfair dismissal claim after the FWC accepted suicidal ideation and mental incapacity following his shunting from the platform amounted to exceptional circumstances.
