A poultry processing worker sacked for refusing to vaccinate against COVID-19 has been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a judge found her former employer did not need to defend accusations of religious discrimination and consultation failures.
Labor maintains that its legislation to protect penalty and overtime rates, to be introduced to Parliament tomorrow, will block changes to awards that might make a single worker worse off.
The SDA's bid for supported bargaining orders covering McDonald's workers Australia-wide is set to be challenged in the Federal Court after 18 South Australian franchisees this week asked for a review of last month's FWC decision setting the campaign in motion.
A FWC full bench has cleared the way for an Uber driver to pursue his unfair deactivation case despite his readmission to the platform after six weeks.
A Federal Circuit and Family Court judge has overlooked the FWO's call to impose a 85% penalty on a pugnacious employer, finding its refusal to engage with underpayment claims instead justified a maximum $41,250 fine, after he last week called for urgent law reform to combat repeated non-compliance.
A Metcash coordinator working from home since she started her job during the coronavirus pandemic has won rare flexibility orders requiring the distribution giant to exempt her from a directive to return to the office, so she can minimise risks for her child with cystic fibrosis.
In further upheaval for state public sector unions, two grassroots candidates have unseated the leadership of the South Australian PSA, after accusing the outgoing team of "sitting on their hands".
CFMEU construction division WA branch secretary Mick Buchan has won his first entry permit in a decade, following a FWC finding he meets the "fit and proper person" test five years after landing a fine for organising an illegal strike.
A HSU senior industrial officer who claimed a branch secretary s-xually harassed her has discontinued her adverse action and s-x discrimination action that had been due to surface in the FWC yesterday.
Uber's "farcical", "inane" and "mind-numbing" response to a driver's attempt to challenge it booting him off the platform for alleged misconduct did not satisfactorily explain why he filed his unfair deactivation application 12 days' late, the FWC has found.
