A union strategy to limit over-use of contingent workers by extending casual conversion clauses to include labour hire has received a setback, with an FWC full bench affirming that restrictions on independent contractors are not a permitted matter under the Fair Work Act.
The Federal Court has accepted that "future whistleblowers" might be deterred if it releases all Registered Organisations Commission documents relating to last year's raids on the AWU by the Australian Federal Police.
The ASU is appealing a finding that the ATO can require employees to 'hot desk' regardless of whether they perform field work, the union arguing it wouldn't have endorsed the 2017 agreement if it had been made aware of the agency's intention.
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In a decision that United Voice says will make it harder for low-paid workers to be classified as award free, an FWC full bench has found that animal attendants and supervisors covered by a Queensland pet resort agreement should have been assessed against the Miscellaneous Award.
Two new information sheets issued by the Registered Organisations Commission spell out the penalties for reprisals against whistleblowers and details of looming benefits disclosure requirements for bargaining representatives.
An FWC member has declined to award costs to a prominent community legal centre's general manager despite finding she had been capriciously ousted by the management committee during a restructure and ordering her reinstatement.
An FWC full bench has confirmed that the tribunal can rely on evidence given to royal commissions, this month rejecting former NUW NSW official Nick Belan's challenge to findings that his admissions under oath helped establish his financial misconduct and justified dismissal.
The ROC has told the ASU's national office that it might have undervalued its Melbourne and Canberra property holdings by $2.6 million in its 2016-17 financial report, but the union maintains that it complied with accounting standards in writing-down their value.
The head of HR at a major university has had her bullying case against "very senior employees" dismissed after failing to meet several deadlines to provide material to the FWC.
