Although the Albanese Government has shelved plans for an April election due to Cyclone Alfred, prompting some parties and crossbenchers to delay key IR policy announcements, many battlefronts have already been revealed.
The FWC will next month hear a bid from former CFMEU Queensland branch assistant leader and High Court administration challenge spearhead Kane Lowth for a declaration that he is a fit and proper person to take up a job offer at another union.
Team Jetstar cabin crew have voted up an agreement variation that the TWU says will leave them and fellow labour hire colleagues at Altara about $8000 a year better off thanks to "same-job, same-pay negotiations" and a new protected rate of pay.
A FWC member has recited an employer's own correspondence and evidence in throwing out its jurisdictional objections to an adverse action case on the basis that it never dismissed the worker and she lodged the application late, in a ruling that reveals a big payout for continuing use of images of the worker's distinctive tattoos.
A guest services worker at one of the country's largest shopping centres might have avoided the sack if she had promptly returned a $130 voucher mistaken for a gift, the FWC has found.
A FWC full bench has overturned a commissioner's decision to "unilaterally" and without warning "administratively close" a general protections claim based on his incorrect belief that the parties had reached a settlement.
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The FWC has refused to hear a BP worker's three-day late challenge to her sacking after she revealed she ignored a clear direction not to record the disciplinary meeting at which the employer summarily sacked her.
A newly-approved federal code of practice provides "practical guidance to employers" to help protect workers against workplace sexual harassment, according to workplace relations minister Murray Watt.
A transport company is to be referred to the FWO over its "alarming" indifference to its obligations as an employer, after an unfair dismissal case in which it exhibited "disregard" for the FWC before being ordered to pay $30,000 to a former worker sacked without warning.
