In a decision exploring when employers can be said to have repudiated employment contracts, the FWC has ruled that a multinational dismissed a worker when it "unilaterally" withdrew his company car without compensation following a collision with a kangaroo.
IR Minister Michaelia Cash has defended the appointment of former federal Liberal frontbencher Sophie Mirabella to the FWC, maintaining that experience in employment law or IR is "not necessarily" a requirement.
A cyber security attack on multinational meat and food producer JBS has triggered the standing down of about 10,000 Australian workers without pay, according to the AMIEU.
In a breakthrough in its legal stoush with a "whistleblowing" former anti-money laundering compliance auditor, ClubsNSW has won the right to use documents he was made to produce in a confidentiality case to fight his sham contracting and workers comp claims.
The AMIEU is looking to kick-start negotiations for a new national agreement covering the Coles meat department through a petition showing that a majority of those workers want to bargain.
In the latest instalment in what stands as one of the Fair Work Act's pricklier provisions, a senior FWC member has refused CFMMEU efforts to intercede in his consideration of a non-union agreement.
Aviation unions will this month ask the High Court to hear an appeal against Qantas's use of JobKeeper payments, on the same day that the ABCC will seek leave to challenge a full Federal Court finding on the nature of "industrial activity".
Unions representing workers at Alliance Airlines have raised doubts about whether the company can force workers to comply with its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.
RAFFWU petitions showing almost 100% of 2000 participating Coles workers want to bargain for its proposed deal have failed to convince the FWC to make a majority support determination, given it fell far short of the 103,600 who would be covered.
