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.
The FWC has chastised an employer for failing to abide by "industrial fair play" when it neglected to tell a worker it would seek to slash his redundancy payment if he didn't accept an alternative role.
The Victorian Labor government has flagged legislation to improve nurse:patient ratios in public hospitals, amid frustration that the NSW government has refused to budge on the issue.
The ACTU's triennial Congress has endorsed a proposal for state and federal governments to enact industrial manslaughter laws, after maritime union leader Chris Cain told delegates that employers who recklessly kill workers should face $20 million fines and 20 years behind bars.
The AWU is seeking to change the rules governing the way it counts members after belatedly lodging membership figures of 69,786 as of December 2017 – a drop of 17,420, or 20%, from the figure reported a year earlier – following an external audit conducted at the urging of the ROC.
An FWC full bench has heaped more dirt on the grave of recently upended "decision rule", finding that a member erred in relying on the superseded authority to reject a tram driver's late dismissal application.
Changes to the rules for setting the minimum wage would lift it beyond $800 a week, under a proposal fleshed out today by ACTU secretary Sally McManus.
The FWC has called for submissions on whether it has the power to make an interim award, as it seeks to expedite hearings into what Norfolk Island businesses argue is their "uncontroversially special" circumstance.
