The Registered Organisations Commission is seeking information from the HSU's Victorian No 1 branch, in response to what is alleged to be a protected disclosure from a whistleblower.
Maurice Blackburn says it will not require employees to prove claims for backpay after the ASU alerted it to overtime underpayments potentially affecting hundreds of current and former part-time employees.
The FSU has asked the Federal Court to rule that a global currency exchange company is covered by the banking, finance and insurance award, claiming it shifted to the retail award after the recent reduction in penalty rates.
A WA law firm will have to defend a restricted legal practitioner's underpayment and unfair dismissal claims after it failed to convince the state's IRC that he was an independent contractor, with the tribunal finding that only common law employees can be engaged in such roles.
An HR manager who engaged in a "concerted campaign" against her employer's interests, openly compiling a dossier about it and exceeding her authority by initiating a colleague's redundancy, has failed to win back her job.
Two leading IR law academics have asked a Senate inquiry into exploitation of cleaners in the retail sector to recommend that the Turnbull Government insert new "secondary liability" sanctions in the Fair Work to target deliberate avoidance of employment obligations.
Court throws out damages claim from unqualified practitioner; Book now for Isaac speech on Australia's "lagging" wages; and No exemption required for Koori-engagement role.
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela 30 years ago "lavished praise" on Australian unions that were the first in the world to take direct industrial action against apartheid, a response that today would have them sued by shipping companies and prosecuted by the FWO, according to Maurice Blackburn principal Josh Bornstein.
The FWC on rehearing a yard hand's dismissal application has observed his employer's lack of HR expertise did not wash as an excuse for the "disgraceful and grossly unfair" sacking, but slashed compensation due to his vulgar language and propensity to snap when frustrated.
