The FWC has ordered compensation for an inexperienced FIFO mineworker sacked over her involvement in a dig site mix-up that cost her employer about $200,000 after the dumping of 54 ounces of gold.
The Albanese Government's legislation to protect penalty and overtime rates has been designed to be "simple, fair and workable", Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth told Parliament in her second reading speech this morning.
A poultry processing worker sacked for refusing to vaccinate against COVID-19 has been ordered to pay indemnity costs after a judge found her former employer did not need to defend accusations of religious discrimination and consultation failures.
Labor maintains that its legislation to protect penalty and overtime rates, to be introduced to Parliament tomorrow, will block changes to awards that might make a single worker worse off.
The SDA's bid for supported bargaining orders covering McDonald's workers Australia-wide is set to be challenged in the Federal Court after 18 South Australian franchisees this week asked for a review of last month's FWC decision setting the campaign in motion.
A FWC full bench has cleared the way for an Uber driver to pursue his unfair deactivation case despite his readmission to the platform after six weeks.
A Federal Circuit and Family Court judge has overlooked the FWO's call to impose a 85% penalty on a pugnacious employer, finding its refusal to engage with underpayment claims instead justified a maximum $41,250 fine, after he last week called for urgent law reform to combat repeated non-compliance.
A Metcash coordinator working from home since she started her job during the coronavirus pandemic has won rare flexibility orders requiring the distribution giant to exempt her from a directive to return to the office, so she can minimise risks for her child with cystic fibrosis.
In further upheaval for state public sector unions, two grassroots candidates have unseated the leadership of the South Australian PSA, after accusing the outgoing team of "sitting on their hands".
CFMEU construction division WA branch secretary Mick Buchan has won his first entry permit in a decade, following a FWC finding he meets the "fit and proper person" test five years after landing a fine for organising an illegal strike.
