While stopping short of categorising a long-time Esso employee who worked overseas as an on-hire worker, an FWC full bench has found that his failure to secure a "substantive" role with the company on return to Australia meant he could not rely on an industry award to protect him from unfair dismissal.
Prominent Melbourne lawyer Peter Gordon has confirmed he is re-launching his law firm and says "the doors are open" to recent high-profile departures from Slater & Gordon.
A court has thrown out a labour hire worker's adverse action claim despite rejecting the respondent's argument that it lacked jurisdiction because the truck driver mistakenly identified her employer.
A tribunal member who reinstated a transit officer sacked for spraying a minor with capsicum spray should have given greater weight to his past conduct and the viability of re-establishing an employment relationship, a full bench has found.
A major report showing how the superannuation system is geared to disadvantage mothers is calling on employers and the government to boost contributions for workers falling below an "accumulation pathway" of minimum balances required to fund a basic living standard in retirement.
The ACTU's national executive has resolved to keep campaigning for 10 days' paid family and domestic leave, after the FWC's in-principle decision in favour of unpaid leave.
The FWC has issued a conditional entry permit to a new CFMEU construction and general division organiser who assaulted a police officer "a number of years" ago when he was in his early twenties.
The ASU and Shine Lawyers are awaiting a ruling on whether the FWC will grant a majority support determination so the union can bargain on behalf of employees in Victoria, after the law firm questioned whether the group has been fairly chosen.
The FWC has reinstated a worker after highlighting that her employer might have conducted unlawful covert video surveillance and that its HR department mishandled her dismissal.
