An Indigenous worker who went "on country" for three weeks after his sacking has won more time to challenge it, after the FWC found it at least arguable he had been unfairly dismissed over allegations he did not disclose a prior criminal conviction for assaulting a female colleague.
The FWC will allow an employer organisation to use external lawyers, despite accepting that it has sufficient in-house expertise, as it defends a self-represented former employee's unfair dismissal claim.
A court has ordered an Indigenous law professor to flesh out claims in a $2.9 million adverse action case that his race and sex discrimination complaints affected RMIT's handing of allegations he used its funds to research a private rice wine venture and posed an OHS risk.
The ACTU's national executive today sought to close off the newly-established legislative mechanism the CFMMEU's mining and energy division is expected to exploit within weeks to break away from the rest of the union.
In a eulogy at today's state funeral for Green Bans leader Jack Mundey, CFMMEU construction and general division secretary Dave Noonan acknowledged the "terrible injustice" when his leadership predecessor Norm Gallagher blacklisted and summarily expelled the former BLF leader.
An FWC presidential member has averted to "unusually high" workloads for WA-based members that have persisted since the COVID-19 case surge, but the Commission's GM says the pandemic spike is receding.
A BHP worker accused of failing to cooperate with COVID-19 temperature screening should have been told before a meeting that it wanted to question him separately over a colleague's alleged misconduct, but the FWC says the employer did not need to reveal the investigation involved his support person.
The Morrison Government has indicated it will push ahead with the Omnibus Bill in the Senate next week despite the expected absence of its architect, IR Minister and Attorney-General Christian Porter.
