"Fair go" endures despite pandemic IR changes, says FWC; Guard reinstated, but demoted; and FWC backs sacking of worker offended by supervisor's tongue-lashing.
The failure of a council's retired acting chief executive to give evidence about his reasons for sacking a pool duty manager who kept refusing to follow instructions has led to a finding it dismissed him because of his safety complaints.
IT giant IBM has backpaid about 1650 workers more than $12.3 million after it failed to provide award entitlements to workers it regarded as "salaried professionals", while it faces a "contrition payment" of at least $676,000 under an enforceable undertaking with the workplace watchdog.
The High Court has this morning granted special leave for Victoria International Container Terminal to appeal a full Federal Court ruling that cleared the way for what it maintains is a bid by a MUA "front man" to seek to overturn its enterprise agreement.
The UFU is facing renewed internal discord, with its Queensland branch intent on severing ties with the federally-registered body due to dissatisfaction over its operations under national secretary Peter Marshall.
Qantas and the TWU will hold private talks on a contentious plan to outsource ground-handling work at the national carrier, before reporting back to the Fair Work Commission next week.
The FWC has held that DP World was not entitled to deduct pay from Port Botany workers who refused to work on a ship due to safety concerns, while finding it should provide half pay to those stood down after it received prohibition notices.
The CEPU has hailed a Federal Court ruling that it says "upholds the fundamental right" against self-incrimination in penalty proceedings the ABCC brought against the union, two officials and 25 individual workers over alleged unlawful industrial action.
Employers that engage in deliberate wage theft face jail terms of up to a decade and 14 years when fraud is involved after the passage of legislation in Queensland's Parliament today, while employees under federal and state laws will have access to what the Palaszczuk Government promises will be a "simple, quick and low-cost" recovery process for underpayments.
