In a case in which an IR consultant swapped sides to support a dismissed employee and evidence emerged of possible fraud by the employer, the FWC has ordered a family-run day care centre to pay its former director more than $30,000 after finding her dismissal "capricious, fanciful and prejudiced".
A regional airline will next month ask the High Court to grant special leave for it to challenge a ruling that allowed a union to pursue an adverse action claim on behalf of non-members who were "merely eligible" for membership.
The Federal Court today ordered Seven Network (Operations) and Seven West Media to participate in mediation of the adverse action claims brought by former executive assistant Amber Harrison under the Fair Work Act.
FWC Deputy President Anna Booth told Patrick and the MUA today that she is prepared to sit until midnight next Wednesday to hear and determine the stevedore's application for s418 orders to halt alleged industrial action at its Port Botany container terminal, while the company claims it will pursue the union for losses of up to half a million dollars a day.
Half a million retail and fast food workers employed under agreements negotiated by the SDA are more than $300 million a year worse off than they would be under awards, a Senate inquiry has been told.
A tribunal has upheld the sacking of a general manager's personal assistant for storing more than 1200 inappropriate and pornographic emails in a "funny emails" folder, but has compensated her because it was harsh.
Average pay rises in private sector agreements struck in last year's December quarter returned to the recent trend of about 3% a year, according to new Department of Employment data.
The Federal Government has sidestepped an "irregular" question from the Fair Work Commission about whether it planned to change the Fair Work Act to enable the tribunal to make take-home pay orders in cases like the landmark penalty rates review.
The WA Supreme Court has tested how an employment agreement stacks up under US state law before granting an American company an interlocutory injunction restraining a former Australian employee from working for his new Perth employer.
