Victorian police officers have won a ground-breaking "right to disconnect" clause in their enterprise deal that relieves them of a duty to respond to emails or telephone calls outside their effective working hours.
Employer bodies are asking the FWC's minimum way panel to freeze minimum rates, limit any rises to CPI or to follow last year's precedent and postpone any increases.
The FWC will allow multinational cereal giant Sanitarium to lawyer-up to defend two unfair dismissal claims, noting it is "stressful enough" for an HR manager to be a witness without also representing the company, while its membership of an employer group is irrelevant.
A FWC full bench has rejected a government agency's bid to challenge a coruscating finding on its sacking of a long-serving employee, observing that one of its grounds seemed to be no more than a "complaint" about the member's critical comments.
Adero Law says 14,000 Merivale workers will seek more than $150 million in award safety net payments after a Federal Court finding on the validity of a 2007 deal, while a judge's refusal in a separate class action to order costs against the funder could be a boon for others.
The ROC has taken possession of documents and enough shredded paperwork to fill "two or three Coles bags" that were originally seized in police raids on the AWU in 2017, Senate Estimates has been told.
The FSU is accusing the Commonwealth Bank of using "bribes" and threats to cram a non-union deal down workers' throats after staff voted it up despite strong opposition.
The FWC has shot down an aged care home's "one employer policy" introduced in the chaotic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, ordering it to re-engage a part-time musical therapist jettisoned after she continued to work at three other facilities.
An appeal court has quashed a finding that a disability service repudiated a worker's employment contract by relocating him following bullying complaints, holding the worksite specified in his letter of offer was not an "essential condition".
