A transport employer has found itself in a complex legal quagmire, after failing to gain an interlocutory injunction in the Federal Court to restrain an FWC full bench from further dealing with its matter.
The FWC has rejected a contentious aviation sector agreement after finding its split shifts, overtime, car parking and penalty rate arrangements made it fail the BOOT and that its exclusion of casuals meant the group of employees covered by it was not fairly chosen.
A Coles project manager who alleges he was micromanaged and dismissed for taking leave because of a knee injury was in fact shown the door for making a series of inappropriate s-xual comments, the supermarket giant claims.
Catholic school employers have failed to convince the FWC to refer to a full bench its challenge to the right of NSW and ACT teachers to take protected action on the basis their dioceses are not "single interest employers" as required by the Fair Work Act.
New FWC member Peter Anderson has been credited with authorship of influential ministerial discussion papers almost 20 years ago that presaged the use of the corporations power to underpin a national IR system, in a welcome ceremony at which President Iain Ross confirmed the re-appointment of Commission general manager Bernadette O'Neill.
Telstra has suspended a planned vote to vary an agreement to comply with the building code and has applied to the ABCC for an exemption following a Turnbull Government amendment that allows exemptions for the construction of essential services.
The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has agreed to enter into mediation with an employee who accuses it of taking adverse action by suspending and demoting her and directing her to take indefinite leave following a long absence for cancer treatment and surgery.
The FWC has reaffirmed its jurisdictional ambit to determine right-of-entry disputes after an employer questioned whether it was seeking to exercise judicial powers it does not possess.
Labour productivity grew at a higher average annual rate in the five years to 2015-16 than it did over the past 15 and 30 years, according to new Treasury analysis, but a leading labour market economist has criticised the "arbitrary and misleading" window chosen for the study.
