A tribunal member has rounded on an employer for its "reprehensible" response to being found to have unfairly dismissed a worker, describing as "wage theft" its tardy provision of backpay.
BP must reinstate and compensate a technician sacked for creating and sharing a Hitler parody video of the company's protracted bargaining with oil refinery workers, after an FWC full bench today quashed a finding that it justified his dismissal.
An FWC bench led by Justice Iain Ross has shot back at a full Federal Court direction to properly answer a question posed by the president himself, maintaining it had already done so before highlighting the relevant passages.
A former Melbourne Water advisor is accusing the utility of forcing him to take domestic violence leave and failing to provide a promised permanent job after he disclosed that he was experiencing family violence.
The TWU has asked SafeWork NSW to urgently investigate Deliveroo over its alleged refusal to let riders break into small workgroups to elect OHS representatives, and alleged discrimination against a member involved in negotiations.
A judge has today accepted the ABCC's view that the construction union's lengthy rap sheet should influence the penalty for a relatively minor breach, but has declined to impose a personal payment order on the official involved.
The FWC has rejected a massage therapists' deal on the basis that extra wording in a preamble and at the end of the representational rights notice might have affected employees' interpretation and detracted from key messages.
The Morrison Government is expected to soon make long-delayed appointments to the FWC's expert panel, ahead of the annual wage review picking up steam.
The CFMMEU’s construction and general division Victorian branch has been encouraging members of the union's manufacturing division to resign, the Federal Court heard today.
