Prosecutors have dropped the controversial blackmail charges against CFMMEU construction and general division Victorian branch leaders John Setka and Shaun Reardon.
In upholding the sacking of a nurse who slept on the job and refused to meet with her employer without a Health Workers Union organiser who was banned over OHS concerns, the FWC has found it not unreasonable for an HR manager to threaten to resign rather than work with the official.
A full Federal Court has today dismissed an attempt to overturn the Fair Work Commission's rejection of a new enterprise agreement for aviation ground-handling company Aerocare.
The FWC has today upheld the sacking of a long-serving tram driver for breaching a "cardinal" safety rule when she used her mobile phone while the vehicle was stopped at a red light and tram stop.
The world's richest company has failed to win permission from the FWC for an external lawyer to defend its dismissal for alleged serious misconduct of an employee who is to be self-represented at a hearing next month.
A court has issued a suspended $10,000 fine and costs against a former Toll worker who defied court orders to stop publishing videos of him wearing the company's uniform while ambushing former Labor Senator Sam Dastyari and that misrepresent people as employees.
In rejecting as "absurd" the expert evidence of a forensic accountant who calculated that Ambulance Victoria owed an on-call media officer $800,000 in unpaid entitlements, the Federal Circuit Court has instead ordered the employer to pay her $155,000, including for time spent sleeping.
In a significant decision on the FWC's power to deal with clashes between agreements and state laws, a tribunal member has found that jurisdiction was established by a combination of health and safety considerations and the absence of legislative reference to exclusive arbitrators.
