An employee made redundant while pregnant "without reference" to the company's HR specialists will be paid a $20,000 penalty and $9,000 for hurt and humiliation as part of a $58,000 total adverse action payout.
Blue-collar unions are today seeking an injunction in the Queensland IRC to stop Brisbane City Council putting a proposed agreement to an employee ballot
The CFMEU has called for greater transparency and a more inclusive approach to testing whether agreements satisfy the BOOT after the FWC in a rare move published the "legislative checklist" it used to assess a labour hire company's non-union agreement.
Key crossbench senator Nick Xenophon, who announced today that will be quitting federal politics to contest a State lower house seat, has expressed “great concern” at some large employers' "apparent disregard" for the information they provide in statutory declarations certifying that their deals pass the BOOT.
The Turnbull Government will introduce legislation to punish insolvent businesses that deliberately structure their affairs to shift costs onto the Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme, it announced today.
Gary Maas, the NUW's Victorian branch secretary and national vice-president, has been endorsed today as the Labor candidate for a Victorian lower house seat, ahead of next year's State election.
In the FWO's first underpayment prosecution relying on race discrimination prohibitions in the Fair Work Act, a court has found a Tasmanian hotel and its manager deliberately short-changed a head chef and kitchen hand and expected them to work long hours, six days a week because of their Malaysian nationality and Chinese race.
The FWC has ruled that an organisation's failure to provide notice to a poorly-performing finance manager rendered her dismissal unfair, but has refused to order compensation because she "deliberately deceived" it about her qualifications.
A general manager will be able to move to a chief executive role with a competitor in six months, after the NSW Supreme Court cut in half the 12-month restraint in his employment contract.
