The FWC has issued an entry permit to a NTEU organiser and Newcastle Council Greens councillor after weighing her arrest for offences while participating in a climate protest.
The FWC has swiftly signed off on 20,000 more early childhood education and care workers being added to a landmark multi-employer supported bargaining agreement that accesses a 15% pay rise over two years, while offering pointers to smooth the way for sectoral participants expected to follow suit.
A large childcare operator has been ordered to pay more than $8000 compensation to a sacked worker falsely accused of telling a parent about her tenuous visa status in supposed breach of a company policy found by the FWC to impose no constraint on such interactions.
A former organiser who claims the UWU sacked her for exacerbating post-amalgamation "tensions" by pushing for a staff agreement has won a three-month extension to file her second unfair dismissal application, after a full bench found her first one barred as she lodged it while pursuing an adverse action case.
The Closing Loopholes legislation and its transitional provisions do not require the FWC to consider whether it should insert more favourable delegates' rights terms in an underlying award when it is varying an agreement, the FWC has ruled.
The FWC has awarded $20,000 to an on-hire mineworker sacked after testing positive for anti-depressants, finding that more consideration should have been given to his "genuine misunderstanding" of the host's new drug policy.
The IR Minister who introduced Work Choices to Parliament has been recognised in this year's Australia Day honours, while senior federal public servants have been lauded for their roles in the aged care work value case and in turning around a backlog of FEG claims.
The removal of a long-serving on-hire worker on her host's instruction after she mislabelled two boxes amounted to an unfair dismissal but the FWC has "reluctantly" declined to order compensation despite the labour supplier's failure to "go into bat" for her.
FWC President Adam Hatcher has directed the Road Transport Advisory Group to start consulting on Menulog's claim for a gig economy delivery award, TWU bids for minimum standards and contract chain orders, and a veteran truck driver's application to vary the long distance road transport award.
