The Federal Court has rescinded a windfall for three emergency-call operators who stood to be reimbursed for years of unpaid mentoring allowances, after determining a lower court failed to account for training payments already made under the governing agreements.
Workplace Relations Minister Senator Murray Watt will weigh into a gender undervaluation award review case to make it clear the wages of affected workers must not go backwards, after the ASU warned proposed changes to the community and disability sector award might leave some workers up to $700 a week worse off.
A law firm that forced a solicitor to work "self-evidently excessive" hours and "deprived her of any form of personal autonomy or agency without any rational justification" has been ordered to pay her $50,000 in fines and interest.
The FWC has found it "fanciful" to suggest that an employer might allow a HR professional to send extensive confidential information to his personal email address without authorisation, ruling his serious misconduct warranted dismissal.
With the Greens pledging today to use their power in the Senate to create the "most progressive parliament" Australia has seen, labour law academic Andrew Stewart says there is "every reason" to expect movement on their priority IR issues, such as a four-day working week and reproductive leave.
A tribunal has pilloried a government department's efforts to fill a vacancy after observing that a senior nurse encouraged to apply had the role plucked away from her following the "catastrophic collision" of three internal processes.
The Albanese Government is likely to have greater scope to push through its pre-election IR promises and any further reforms after its thumping win on Saturday delivered a majority in the lower house and an upper house in which it might share the balance of power solely with the Greens.
"Offboarding" a worker and processing her "final pay" before she went on holiday did not amount to a termination of employment, the FWC has ruled, because although the term "superficially" indicates dismissal, the worker failed to consider the circumstances of her labour-hire arrangement.
In further fruits from efforts to organise in the Pilbara, workers at two power stations will gain a 4.3% to 12.6% pay uplift and better conditions under their first union deal.
The HSU's Victorian No 1 branch will enter full administration and secretary Diana Asmar will leave her job, under in an in-principle agreement reached with the union's national executive, which it expects the Federal Court to approve on Monday.
