A former parliamentary officer who took a "shock and awe" approach and went "nuclear" after a federal MP made him redundant post-election has lost his bid to pursue an adverse action case in tandem with a discrimination claim.
Adero Law says it is investigating a potential class action against the Seven Network after "numerous" current and former employees approached it to report potential underpayment, misclassification and unpaid breaks concerns.
The ETU's WA branch is pushing to bargain for a separate agreement for continuing electrical, instrumentation or plumbing workers at the massive Pluto 2 LNG expansion, to uncouple from employees who will be demobilised as the construction phase ends, and is urging workers to vote down a pay offer that "does not pass the pub test".
The inquiry into the CFMEU construction division's Queensland branch is set to begin its public proceedings next week in Brisbane with an opening statement from Commissioner Stuart Wood KC and an address from senior counsel assisting, Liam Kelly KC.
A psychic reader who earned just $25 in the final 12 months he worked on an online platform and regularly failed to meet its minimum hours of work requirement is unable to pursue his unfair dismissal claim after the FWC held he is an independent contractor.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has initiated legal action against the CFMEU and two of its officials for allegedly unlawfully coercing directors of an Indigenous labour hire company, in a bid to stop them working on Melbourne building sites and bargaining for a replacement agreement.
In a crucial unfair deactivation ruling, a FWC full bench has rejected Uber's argument that its voluntary reactivation of a driver extinguishes the Commission's jurisdiction, ruling that the tribunal has the power to restore his lost pay and app access, but not to remove a negative review.
Senior ABC managers failed to consult in-house IR and legal experts and "blithely ignored" risks when the organisation "capitulated" to critics and sacked presenter Antoinette Lattouf over her political views on the Gaza war, which warranted a substantial penalty to deter a recurrence, Federal Court judge Darryl Rangiah found today.
The Federal Court has today ordered the ABC to pay former presenter Antoinette Lattouf a fine of $150,000 for unlawfully sacking her for reasons including her political opinion opposing the Gaza war and breaching its enterprise agreement.
