Police engaged in "material" non-disclosure and misrepresentation when obtaining telephone intercept warrants against two Victorian CFMEU officials in 2015, the Melbourne Magistrates Court heard today.
In a landmark ruling that might compel a review of APS guidelines for use of social media, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has held that a federal department that sacked an employee for her anonymous tweets "highly critical" of government policy trespassed on her implied constitutional rights and failed the "reasonable administrative action" test.
The Independent Education Union says it has lost a key witness in its equal pay case on behalf of early childhood teachers as a result of employers securing onerous production orders, while the FWC has scheduled a hearing to deal with its bid to have the orders set aside the day before they fall due.
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A health care clinic manager has failed to persuade the FWC that her HR-expert husband's representative error and the so-called "reverse synergy effect" resulting from her son’s concurrent unfair dismissal claim explained her application arriving 32 days' late.
Victorian unions have vowed to maintain a 300-day protest against the global energy giant ExxonMobil engaging a replacement maintenance workforce on lower pay and conditions at its Bass Strait gas plant.
The NSW Supreme Court has refused to grant an interlocutory injunction against a former SAI Global executive who had sought to set up shop at rival online conveyancing and property settlement provider InfoTrack and its subsidiary Perfect Portal.
Printing, counting and logistics workers at the RBA's money printing arm, Note Printing Australia, are about to vote on whether to strike indefinitely, conduct unlimited stopworks and ban communication tasks in a bid to win a 4% annual pay rise, with their unions pointing to a package awarded to the bank's directly-engaged employees.
The FWC is set this afternoon to hear Patrick Stevedores' application to Commission to stop alleged planned industrial action by MUA members at its Port Botany container terminal in support of maintenance workers who are about to embark on a seven-day protected strike.
In an inherent requirements case highlighting the need for employers to keep detailed records about return to work plans, the FWC has upheld the dismissal of a bus driver kept off the road for 16 months by a combination of nerve pain and anxiety.
