A Lorna Jane employee with a pre-existing personality disorder has failed in her $570,000 bid to hold the retailer liable for a manager's Facebook spray and alleged bullying she claimed triggered her condition.
The giant miner Glencore has extended the lockout of about 190 workers at its Oaky North coal mine in Queensland for another two weeks, to 132 days. Meanwhile, the union that represents the mineworkers has a new general secretary.
In an important ruling for the construction and mining industries, a court has found that an employer on a massive fly-in, fly-out resources construction project was entitled to give notice to a worker that would run concurrently with his 10 days of mandatory "weekend-like" rest and recreation leave.
A Gorgon LNG project worker has lost his adverse action bid after a court found his complaints about offensive and racist conduct played no part in an HR manager's decision to make him redundant.
Coles Supermarkets nightfill worker Penny Vickers has withdrawn her bid to terminate the retailer's 2011 agreement, after it agreed to a "transition payment" for about 77,000 employees that makes up any difference between their wages and the agreement rates from the date they vote for a new deal.
The FWC has reinstated a CFMEU lodge president dismissed for a series of threatening phone calls to workmates after questioning why recommendations and mitigating factors raised during a senior HR advisor's investigations were absent from the employer's final report.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has served ten notices to produce documents on the head office of Domino's Pizza and some franchisees after expressing dissatisfaction with the speed and extent of its response to the regulator's concerns.
In one of the first extended discussions about the capacity to include incidental matters in modern awards, the FWC has called for further submissions on how or whether to incorporate a standard clause that would permit employers to deduct up to five weeks pay when employees quit without giving sufficient notice.
