Labor has promised to introduce tougher penalties for workplace deaths resulting from breaches of work safety obligations if it wins the March State election in New South Wales.
In a significant rebuff to employer attempts to accelerate agreement approval processes, a five-member FWC full bench as part of its "loaded rates" ruling has affirmed the requirement to apply the BOOT to each and every covered employee.
A five-member FWC full bench has quashed the approval of a small construction company's enterprise agreement, after CFMMEU modelling suggested it left workers up to $575 a week worse off than the award, but the Commission has cited the types of undertakings that might get it across the line.
A company director behind a troubled $800 million redevelopment of Melbourne's former Pentridge Prison site is seeking to revive a massive damages claim against the CFMMEU in the Victorian Supreme Court.
Federally-funded employers of workers with disabilities have repelled an attempt to retrospectively reverse a delayed phase-out of a contentious wage calculation tool, which could have left them liable for claims under the Disability Discrimination Act.
The pitfalls of self-representation have been highlighted by an FWC full bench that found it would be "futile" to hear a former chief executive's anti-bullying case because his notice of appeal "expressly" indicated he was seeking an unnecessary order.
The Turnbull Government has today introduced legislation to require large businesses to report on their actions to address modern slavery risks in their supply chains.
A licensed hotel's duty manager, dismissed for allegedly assaulting an "obnoxious" patron parading around with his pants off, has had his unfair dismissal case dismissed by a senior FWC member who ruled it would be unfair to ask the employer to defend the case after he provided an unconvincing medical certificate to explain his last-minute no-show at a scheduled hearing.
US President Donald Trump has hailed a landmark judgment by the US Supreme Court, which ruled that public sector unions cannot collect compulsory "agency fees" from non-members.
