RAFFWU is yet to concede defeat on a bid to quash Woolworths' 2012 agreement, after an FWC full bench threw out its challenge to the approval of the retailer's replacement deal and accused it of trying to deprive some team members of an allowance "merely to aid" its termination application.
A tribunal member has decided against involving the federal police in the case of a persistent applicant who accused him of corruption, further refusing to be "thrown off [his] game" by the man's "transphobic" references to him.
The FWC has thwarted a manager's unfair dismissal claim by assessing his earnings as $315.02 above the high income threshold, rejecting his arguments that his car allowance, annual leave loading and mobile phone should be excluded from the total.
The CFMMEU's construction division says senior NSW officials at the centre of a new ABCC court action have denied alleged threatening conduct, such as warning a crane company to "agree with everything" in a deal as "you don't want your blokes offsite, equipment damaged, cranes wrecked".
Foodora's administrators have announced that the food delivery platform's German parent will direct payments of nearly $2.3 million to cover almost 30% of the claimed entitlements of 1700 of its former riders, but while the TWU has welcomed the "world first" it says more than 3800 riders will go unpaid.
A former Esso union delegate who was found to be unfairly dismissed for calling a co-worker a "f___ing scab" has failed to convince an FWC Full Bench that he should be reinstated.
Victoria's labour hire regulatory scheme has opened to mixed reviews, welcomed by the academic who headed a landmark inquiry into the sector but dubbed a "blunt instrument" by a key employer group.
In the latest ruling on the distinction between independent contractors and employees, the FWC has found that a graphic designer whose hours for related small employers were "negotiated" on a weekly or fortnightly basis over almost three years was capable of being dismissed.
An FWC full bench will make a call on whether a redetermination requires the tribunal to consider all grounds afresh, after the AWU today won a stay on a senior member's orders enabling her to contemplate just three specified issues in revisiting Alcoa's bid to bin its WA deal.
