Production workers at CUB's brewery at Abbotsford in Victoria are set for some Christmas cheer after striking an in-principle agreement on a new three-year deal that provides annual pay rises of 4%.
The chief executive of a mortgage provider who lost his job after accusing it of misleading conduct and demanding a $900,000 payout has won $110,000 in damages, after the Federal Circuit Court found his failure to return to work provided a valid reason but that he was also sacked for exercising a workplace right.
Less than 2% of private sector workers will be covered by agreements by 2030 if the current rate of decline in bargaining continues, according to new analysis by the Centre for Future Work.
Employers have to be disabused of the notion that they deem whether a worker is a casual or not, according to Labor's shadow minister for employment and workplace relations, Brendan O'Connor.
A veteran IR and HR consultant is suing the Victorian Hospitals Industrial Association for age discrimination, alleging it caused him to suffer a major depressive disorder and then discriminated against him because of his mental disability.
The Morrison Government has pledged to boost the funding of the ABCC, as it seeks to highlight Labor's election pledge to abolish the construction watchdog.
A small coach company that voluntarily repaid two drivers almost $44,000 after admitting underpaying them has been penalised a total of $168,300, despite a judge finding the breaches were a result of "clumsiness and inadvertence" rather than deliberate.
The FWC has praised the "extraordinary lengths" an employer took to support a worker suffering from domestic violence before it sacked her for failing to improve her attendance.
