In a decision meticulously examining notions of bias, a FWC presidential member has declined to recuse himself at the same time as taking a swing at a lawyer arguing he breached a "golden rule" by privately communicating with a party seeking anti-bullying orders.
Highly-automated stevedore Victoria International Container Terminal won an interim anti-industrial-action order late last week that halted an escalating MUA campaign that included a 36-hour protected strike due to begin on Sunday morning.
Australia's largest independent grocery retailer in defending a $20 million class action has admitted to breaching leave loading requirements, but otherwise denied it should have paid salaried employees for extra hours or recorded their additional time.
The FWC has made a rare costs order against an unfair dismissal applicant who filed her case while unsure if she had in fact quit in the heat of the moment, before discontinuing it less than 24 hours before the hearing.
As critics of the Omnibus IR Bill decry an absence of targeted measures to boost incomes, a strategy to more than double the minimum wage is a key plank of new US President Joe Biden's "American rescue plan" to lift his nation's economy out of the coronavirus recession.
Unions say Uber's failure to convince the UK's Supreme Court that its drivers are independent contractors or that their working time only includes periods carrying passengers is set to be "very persuasive" in the Australian context.
A retiring presidential FWC member has used his final ruling to deliver a withering character assessment of a law graduate and question the benefit of GPs providing mental health appraisals in cases alleging bullying.
In an unusual postscript to the ostensibly routine approval of a construction industry agreement, a Victorian company is taking the FWC and the AWU to court arguing that the deal should never have been ratified, partly because it did not give 75% of its workforce a chance to consider or vote on it.
The FWC has refused to grant Westpac orders seeking that it be allowed to contest a manager's sacking without revealing to her why it dismissed her, describing the application as "unusual, if not unprecedented".
The "overwhelming majority" of employers should assume they have no power to force employees to vaccinate against COVID-19, IR Minister Christian Porter said today as his agencies issued new advice on workplace inoculations.
