A FWC expert panel has proposed keeping in place an emergency contractual chain order helping contractors recover increased fuel costs until average diesel prices drop below $2 for four weeks.
The FWC has moved from sounding the alarm about its exploding workload to contemplating real cuts to its physical presence and changes to its processes that include taking advantage of the shift to online interactions to shrink its offices and triaging general protections cases at the conciliation phase.
Unions should be afforded the opportunity to reprise their traditional "cop on the beat" role by being handed the same powers as the FWO to refer underpayment cases to the DPP and AFP for prosecution, the NTEU says in a submission to the Senate wage theft inquiry.
A HR/IR manager who resigned briefly before taking up a casual position with the same employer has fallen short of the minimum period for pursuing an unfair dismissal case, despite assurances her continuity of employment would be preserved.
Unions have today sought authorisation to strike at BHP's iron ore export operations at Port Hedland, after claiming to have been "stonewalled" during bargaining for new deals.
The CFMEU's South Australian construction and general division branch has today broken away from its Victorian counterpart, newly-installed administrator Michael Crosby describing it as a "very important moment" after two "turbulent" years following revelations about the union's misdeeds.
An employee pressing to solely work from home did not abandon or repudiate her employment by moving interstate against the employer's express wishes, the FWC has found.
A prospective migrant living in Egypt has won limited document discovery against an Australian charity running a refugee employment program, in a race bias complaint alleging there is "a stark disparity" between its placements for South Sudanese and other candidates.
The FWC has rejected the dismissal claim of a "combative" risk manager who accused a Rio Tinto-linked First Nations trust of forcing her to resign by subjecting her to psychological hazards, pressuring staff to work on "invasion day", and flouting her right to disconnect.
