The FWC has slammed an employer for "behaviour of the shabbiest type" when it "de-rostered" an employee and cancelled his 457 visa sponsorship application because he asked to be paid his minimum lawful entitlements.
A tribunal has upheld the dismissal of an employee who deceived her employer when she claimed workers' compensation while she performed paid work in a second job, but has identified flaws in the employer’s investigation.
An FWC full bench has refused to accept Coles Supermarkets night-fill employee Penny Vickers' argument that its law firm's conflict of interest should rule it out from helping to repel her bid to terminate its 2011 agreement.
Former Seven West Media executive assistant Amber Harrison has today been ordered to pay indemnity costs likely to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, the judge excoriating her for running a "vitriolic" case supported by no admissible evidence.
Unions are seeking the reinstatement of powers to inspect non-members' time and wages records, after their analysis of 200 job advertisements aimed at Chinese, Korean and Spanish-speakers showed that almost four out of every five pay less than the award.
Road freight group NatRoad has been thwarted in its attempt to win a seat at the IR table in NSW, describing the dismissal of its application to register as an employer organisation as "totally unintelligible".
Boral has retreated from threats to make about 100 workers at Sydney-based concreting subsidiary De Martin & Gasparini (DMG) redundant before the end of the month, today providing undertakings to extend the trigger point to August 10 and give at least 10 days' notice of any revised plans.
FWC President Iain Ross will now preside over the domestic violence leave case and might combine it with the family-frendly work arrangements case, he revealed in a statement today.
The FWC has rejected a claim that a Bunnings Warehouse supervisor bullied an employee when she asked him about his "deformities", but not before criticising the HR department's handling of the worker's complaint.
Liquidators seeking to recover almost $67 million in taxpayer funds paid to former Queensland Nickel employees have avoided a "chase for Skase" scenario after they yesterday served papers on counsel for holidaying ex-director Clive Palmer and 20 others.
