A Fair Work Commissioner has warned of member shopping, delay tactics and artificial constraints in comprehensively rejecting full bench advice that those conciliating a matter should automatically step aside from arbitrating the dispute if a party objects to their continued involvement.
Court rejects ABCC coercion case against CFMMEU official; ETU damns industry super report "spruiking" nukes; DP World seeking to halt MUA's industrial action; Ginters inspires lawyers to raise funds for MND; and FWC upholds reinstatement of drunk employee.
A senior FWC member has reiterated that no employer should dismiss a worker by electronic means, finding the sacking of a supervisor via text message "disgraceful and grossly unfair".
The Federal Court has thrown out a CFMMEU delegate's attempt to quash a contentious waterfront deal, finding that he was acting as a "front man" for the union's effort to sink an agreement it failed to challenge at the time.
A multinational company has won a rare stay on orders that it pay 173 former detention centre workers more than $130,000 in unpaid allowances, after the Federal Court found the union pushing their case had no record of their whereabouts.
As the SA Government warns public school teachers that no amount of singing John Farnham songs and waving placards in a strike this week will garner a larger pay rise, the Queensland Teachers' Union is likely to call off a stoppage following a "landmark" offer.
A multinational "people flow" company can require a tradesperson with severe claustrophobia to transfer from an escalator repair team to an elevator repair team, the FWC has found, while cautioning that its approach to accommodating his condition would be considered if he returned with an unfair dismissal claim.
The ABCC is pressing ahead with prosecutions against the CFMMEU, three officials and 44 individual workers over alleged industrial action last year on a Perth airport rail link project.
A court has granted the private operator of Sydney's newly-opened metro rail line access to an RTBU delegate's medical records after he was sacked for allegedly lying when completing a health assessment.
