A senior Treasury official has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours for her contribution to setting up the JobKeeper program during the coronavirus pandemic.
The FWC has rejected a real estate agent's claim that his employer fooled him into resigning, finding its move to enforce post-employment restraints after he joined a competitor did not retrospectively turn a mutually agreed separation into an unfair dismissal.
As plans for a national portable entitlements scheme remain in limbo, the NT's Finocchiaro Government has repealed legislation that would have extended portable long service leave to the community services sector, arguing that it would result in increased fees for parents using childcare and would be too costly for the Government.
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A 48-hour midwives strike would have endangered the lives of mothers and babies, the FWC has ruled, in newly-published reasons explaining why it suspended the stoppage.
The FWC has rejected an employer's $5000 costs claim against a self-represented worker while questioning its use of lawyers, finding some expenses not "judiciously incurred" in defending her constructive dismissal case.
The Minns Labor Government's rush to pass contentious workers' compensation amendments has backfired, with the NSW upper house sending the legislation to a Greens-chaired inquiry that will get to decide its own reporting date.
The FWC has issued an entry permit to a CFMEU organiser previously imprisoned for a two-day robbery spree, after an initially leery presidential member accepted that the former methamphetamine addict has turned his life around.
The FWC has found that a nine-week gap in an Uber Eats driver's recent work history made him ineligible to claim unfair deactivation, while refusing the company's bid to import the "reasonable expectation of continuing work" principle from the unfair dismissal jurisdiction.
In a genuine redundancy ruling, the FWC has confirmed that it simply needs to consider whether employers have notified a retrenchment in writing, rather than whether they have provided notice in "the most optimum manner".
