A FWC full bench has axed an 11-year-old deal that excluded minimum engagement periods for casuals, finding that it must terminate agreements if their continued operation would be unfair to "any" rather than all covered employees.
A FWC bench has refused a UFU request to further adjourn its intractable bargaining case with the FRV in an effort to keep the matter "on track" and has scheduled a three-week hearing, 18 months after it became the first vehicle to test the Commission's new deadlock-breaking powers under the Secure Jobs legislation.
An unlisted mining exploration company has failed to claw back legal costs that included a 14-day trial defending claims brought by its former "whistleblower" chief executive, after the Federal Court found his rejection of two settlement offers justified when he stood to receive "substantial" penalties for workplace breaches.
Queensland Health has been ordered to backpay a nurse for an unpaid suspension imposed while investigating a complaint that he "grabbed" a patient's t-sticles in an attempt to revive them after they fainted while showering, a tribunal finding it failed to inform him that it took into account previous allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
A paramedic who claimed that details of her dismissal case over alleged theft of drugs in the workplace could incite an allegedly abusive former partner has failed to win a suppression order.
The FWC has found that an employer failed to implement recommendations from two bullying investigations conducted by the Ai Group and should now consider leadership training for the former manager of a worker who quit after the filing of the dispute case.
The FWC will refer a law firm to the Fair Work Ombudsman after it emerged during general protections proceedings that it might have flouted the Legal Services Award by making unauthorised deductions from a worker's wages.
The Flying Kangaroo and the TWU have reached an in-principle deal to settle the union's same-job, same-pay application for labour suppliers to Qantas Freight, while the FWC has approved the FAAA's SJSP application that substantially lifts pay for in-house and external on-hire workers at the airline.
