An accounts officer who returned from leave to find her desk had been cleared has been awarded $7690 in compensation for her employer's "callous act" in making her redundant without any warning or consultation.
The FWC has lambasted an employer's outdated views on marriage after it sacked an IT specialist whose husband railed against its managing director via team messaging application Slack, but nonetheless slashed her payout by $56,000 on re-hearing her unfair dismissal application.
The long-serving secretary of the AMWU's influential West Australian branch, Steve McCartney, is facing a challenge from former organiser Scott Williams in an election that opens next month.
Tasmanian Bill aims to protect workers with PTSD; Rise in capital share largely due to housing, says central bank; Employers not responding to skills shortages by offering higher pay, says RBA.
A union is challenging the WA Department of Education's belief that teachers automatically repudiate their employment if they receive interim negative working with children notices upon being charged with an offence, before their cases are decided in court.
Workplace sexual harassment complainants should be able to bypass the Human Rights Commission and pursue claims directly in the courts, while they should have six years rather than six months to lodge their applications, according to two legal sector submissions to the national inquiry into sexual harassment.
Protected industrial action will start at DP World's four container terminals on Friday in the form of work bans, followed by rolling stoppages in individual ports from next week.
The FWC has rejected a multi-pronged attempt by four retrenched dockworkers to establish that they were not genuinely redundant, finding their employer's offer to re-engage them as casuals did not detract from its need to reduce its full-time workforce.
Unions have stepped up their criticism of the Morrison Government's legislation that extends to all "regular casual" workers a right to request conversion to part-time or full-time employment.
Intervention is needed to end an "unprecedented slowdown" in wages growth, according to an open letter signed by 124 Australian labour market researchers and published today.
