Hewlett Packard has failed to overturn a ruling requiring it to pay more than $370,000 in decade-old sales commissions to an over-performing sales executive, in a decision also rejecting the former employee's bid for an interest from 2010.
The High Court has today unanimously rejected "robo-terminal" VICT's argument that the MUA abused lower court processes when it used delegate Richard Lunt as a "front man" for its belated bid to overturn approval of the company's enterprise agreement.
A tribunal has ordered the ACT Government to re-credit more than 200 hours of personal leave to a worker who accused it of discriminating against her on the basis of her parenting responsibilities by refusing to let her start work before 7.30am.
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.
